Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Reading: Son of the Earthshaker
Chapter I
"The page won't turn," Piper said with a frown as she struggled with the next story from the Olympian One-Offs. "Hey!"
The book shone as it shot from her grasp, hovering in front of the demigods. Another book appeared in place of the collection of short stories. The screen displayed a familiar blond wearing the colors of Camp Jupiter, a pair of golden bracers covering his arms, which were crossed over his broad chest. Instead of the usual blue in his eyes, though, were startling, beautiful shades of sea green. At his right was Jason in his glory, wearing the same purple shirt his old spear in hand while on his left Kushina smiled from a beach at them.
"...Okay, this almost makes up for my story not coming back." Apollo mumbled. Zeus scowled.
"Now this is bullshit." The king rumbled. Poseidon gave him a dull glare for using his sacred animal in the insult while Hestia glared outright.
"Zeus!"
"Hestia, why does he get his own story while we must wait?"
"Because he is the only one of us without a Roman child?" Hades suggested with a raised brow. "Aside from Athena, for obvious reasons..."
Athena had a look of displeasure on her face and Aphrodite tittered.
"Oh, he's a handsome one, Poseidon." She praised. "He obtained his hair from his father's disguise, I'm sure."
"...A blonde Neptune?" Apollo rubbed his chin. "...Nope, don't see it."
"Let's not speak of where he obtained his looks and just get on with it, shall we?" Hera asked. She looked at the demigods. "Percy Jackson, would you like the honors?"
"Alright," Percy said, intrigued at the thought of Naruto as his brother. The book floated over to his hands and he cracked it open. "Chapter one."
"Home at last, baby," said the relieved voice of a woman as she and her almost four-year-old son entered their home, the boy giggling in childlike wonder.
"So no super ninja?" Piper wondered.
"Guess not." Percy grinned. Finally! No more ninjas!
The woman had her long red hair pulled back into a tight bun covered by her MARPAT cap, alluring purple eyes with a slight edge to them and her working uniform hiding her frame. She was beautiful, still in her late twenties, so it was expected. However, there was the exhaustion of raising a child and juggling that with the duties of a Lieutenant, junior grade officer obvious on her face.
"Of course she would be in the Navy." Athena rolled her eyes as Poseidon glared at her.
"You do remember Triton is the god of the Navy, correct?" He asked. That shut up the war goddess.
"Well, I think she pulls off the uniform nicely Poseidon." Aphrodite complimented.
"Thank you, Aphrodite."
She dropped her olive duffle bag on the ground and quickly scooped up the small boy that ran ahead of her. "Come back here, munchkin. Oh, Mommy missed you. Did you have fun at Nana's?"
"Aww!" Annabeth, Piper, and Hazel cooed along with Aphrodite, Hestia and Demeter. Artemis, Hera and Thalia merely smiled.
"Little Naruto is so cute!" The goddess of love squealed. "It's a universal fact."
"...Mine's probably best lookin'." Apollo mumbled. He grunted when Artemis absentmindedly smacked him upside the head.
"Yes!" the boy said clearly. She smiled at him and kissed his cheeks, making him giggle some more. His sea green eyes twinkled happily and a messy mop of blond hair covered his head.
"It truly is amazing," Hades noted. "A son without the black hair."
"He could have gotten it from his mother's side. Latent genes and all," Hermes said with a shrug.
"What's impressive is how he pulls off mother's eyes." Hestia mused, getting nods all around. Percy smirked, yeah, they were awesome eyes.
"Good! Now, Mommy's home...so what does that mean?" the mother asked her son.
"Ramen!" the boy said, throwing his hands up in the air with his cheer and making her laugh.
"Wouldn't be Naruto without the ramen." Annabeth giggled, it seems that all Naruto's loved it.
"Universal fact number one: It isn't Naruto without the Ramen." Leo mused as he wrote this down. He was so going to make a list for future stories. Not every Naruto would have the same traits...right?
"Every night." The laughing mother said. She tapped him on the nose, making him giggle again. "Mommy's home equals ramen every night."
"Like blue food."
"Percy," Thalia groaned. "Enough with the blue food!"
"Never!"
"I don't think that is a good idea, Kushina." A baritone voice said. Kushina and her son looked into the living room where a man in a white dress admiral uniform sat in the sole recliner. He had sea green eyes much like the boy, but his hair was pitch black, greying along the sides and in his neatly trimmed beard. He had a faint smile on his face as he watched the two interact.
"Neptune doesn't look that much different." Percy noted. "Or, well, war-like."
"Oh trust me, Percy, he is when he wants to be. He's just mellowed out through the years like I did," Poseidon said.
At seeing the man in her house, Kushina set her son on the ground. "Go to your room, munchkin."
"Who's that?" the boy asked.
"Just go, Naruto." Kushina said, escorting him through the room while watching the man warily.
"Ooh, someone's not happy with the reunion," Hermes said. He ignored the side glare he received from his uncle.
"Okay." Naruto said. He looked around his mother's leg at the man, getting a small smile from him. Naruto, being the cheerful boy he was, smiled and waved at him before disappearing into the hall and going to his room to play with his toys.
"He's a little sweetheart," Hazel said with a soft smile. She was a sucker for little kids.
"He's getting so big." The man said, sighing.
"What do you want?" Kushina asked, getting to the point and making him arch a brow. He gave a light chuckle.
"There's that military attitude." Ares snickered. His comment earned him a smirk from Athena.
"Always so blunt. I like that about you, Kushina. Straight to the point, then." The man said, getting up and taking his white cap off the table to his left, tucking it under his arm. He towered over her by a head and spoke sternly. "As I warned you, Naruto's scent is getting potent."
"He's three, almost four," Percy said with a blink.
"Still, for someone like him, a child of Rome, it would be best if he went to training sooner rather than later," Artemis said. She was one of the few Olympians that was close to Lupa, or at least Diana was.
"So that means I might get to train with him." Jason said, looking surprised yet interested.
Thalia on the other hand frowned, since that would been she only recently lost Jason. Not cool at all…but if she could see him growing up, she supposed that would be a sort of good trade off.
"I ship out in a couple months, I can take him with me." Kushina said, her jaw tightening. "His presence would bless the boat and give us safe passage...wouldn't it?"
"She has a point," Poseidon said with a stroke of his beard. That was some smart thinking on Kushina's part.
"There are things in the ocean that even I can't control." The man said. His words made the woman clench her hands into fists.
"Oh, so the mighty Sea King admits to not have everything under control?" Zeus remarked smugly.
"The sea cannot be restrained like the empty sky." Poseidon smirked back.
"Empty!?"
"Zeus." Hestia warned, causing her youngest brother to start grumbling to himself.
"I'm not ready...He's not even four, yet." Kushina said, her eyes tearing up. "There has to be something else I can do."
"At least Mom had time with me." Percy mumbled. He felt bad for Kushina now.
"...It is the best way to protect him, Kushina." He said. "You know that it is what he needs."
"He's my son!" Kushina said, controlling her emotions as best she could. "You're asking me to just-just abandon him at Jack London's cottage!"
"Amen, lady." Thalia nodded, still upset and understood the redheaded woman's woes.
"It is for the best." The man said, looking to the side and meeting the eyes of the boy that was peeking around the corner. "We will speak of this no longer. You will take him to the Wolf Lodge before his birthday comes. I cannot help you if you wait a second more."
"There's that Roman ordering around." Frank pointed out, getting nods of agreement from Jason, Reyna, and Hazel.
"I hate you sometimes." Kushina said. She followed his gaze and felt her breath hitch at seeing Naruto looking at them. Kushina looked back at the man that was dressed as her superior – which in a way he was
"That's got to make for some interesting bedroom games," Aphrodite said thoughtfully.
"Aphrodite!" Hera glared at the goddess of love.
"What? Oh, don't act like you and Zeus don't role-!"
"Aphrodite, for all of our sakes, do not finish that sentence." Athena warned with a slightly uncomfortable look on her face. The other Olympians had turned a slight shade of green and the demigods faired no better.
– and frowned. "Can...Will I lose him?"
"Good question." Percy frowned, was this what his mom could have gone through if she had taken him to camp so much earlier? It was a worrying idea to be honest.
The man stared at her for a moment, his gaze turning a bit softer, before he answered. "As long as he never loses you, you will not lose him. The tide always returns home, Kushina."
"Aww," Apollo snickered. "Uncle P, the feels!"
"I try." Poseidon smirked at the complement.
"...Thank you." Kushina said, a tear falling out of the corner of her eye. The man nodded and walked to the door, stopping and looking back at the family of two when Naruto rushed out to ask why his mom was crying. He smiled lightly before opening the door and putting his hat back on as he left.
"Like the old man of the sea" Apollo said in a distant tone.
Artemis rolled her eyes. "Way to ruin the moment."
"Hey, I make moments! Hallmark was one of my kids' ideas, ya know!"
"Believe me, I know." Hermes drawled.
Kushina looked in the rearview mirror of her car at the toddler that fell asleep in his car seat. Despite not wanting to do it, she knew that he was right and Naruto would be in danger the longer he was kept from his true calling.
"Ah, the army." Ares grinned. "We take all children for free and raise them to be killers."
"I'd believe it." Athena sniffed. Her comment earned her frowns from the Roman demigods.
Still, he was her baby boy. Kushina could barely manage to leave him with his grandmother, who was the chief surgeon of the hospital she worked at, when she had to leave for months at a time. The only time Kushina had taken him on her ship was when Naruto was less than a year old, and it was the smoothest sailing she ever had.
"Like a lucky trinket or something." Leo mused, taking a glance at the current reader.
"I'm not a trinket." Percy glared at the innocent smile that was pointed in his direction.
"Almost there, baby." Kushina said softly, seeing her son stir a bit. Her eyes returned to the road and locked on the billboard to the right advertising the Wolf House. It was only a few miles away...that left her with a few minutes. Kushina felt her eyes water up but held them in. There would be time to cry after he was gone.
"Strong of her," Reyna said. Though it was the Navy, the woman was a soldier and it was nice to see that in a mortal parent.
"Reminds me of my mom a bit..." Frank mumbled. Hazel gave him a comforting hug while Ares rolled his eyes.
"If you start cryin', I'll take back that boost, brat."
"I don't care." Frank mumbled.
Ares smirked. His respect for his Roman brat rose just a bit.
She pulled into the dark forested drive that would lead to the Wolf House and parked her car at the designated lot.
"Come here, munchkin." Kushina said, unbuckling Naruto and pulling him out of the car. The tired blond yawned and rested his head on her shoulder while his arms went around her neck, making Kushina smile sadly and hug him tightly. "I love you, baby."
"...love mommy." Naruto said through a yawn.
Once more, the females of the audience cooed or smiled, he was so sweet.
The males either smiled slightly, looked indifferent, or (in Ares' case) gagged with a finger pointed at his throat while his tongue stuck out.
He was kissed on the head for that remark. Kushina shifted Naruto to her left hip so she could easily access her M9, which was loaded with a special clip filled with bronze tipped bullets, something Naruto's father said would come in handy. He had supplied the bronze and she made the bullets. Kushina just hoped she didn't have to use them.
"I must say," Artemis said thoughtfully, "She is well armed."
Athena's lips pursed in disapproval. It would seem that Annabeth's father wasn't the first to do that with Celestial Bronze. Poseidon caught sight of her look and smirked at her, which earned him a glare in return.
Kushina walked into the wood, her nerves going wild and her eyes darting around. When they finally came across the Wolf Lodge, Naruto had finished waking up and had insisted on walking with her, his hand in hers.
"Like a big boy." Annabeth teased Percy. He rolled his eyes, she was getting way into this.
They waited for a moment before from the shadows of the lodge came a large wolf that towered over Kushina, while Kushina herself barely made it to the wolf's shoulder. It had a beautiful chocolate red coat of fur and Kushina's purple eyes locked with two silver eyes that were unblinking.
"There she is." Reyna said as Jason nodded.
"This should be good." The boy muttered.
Thalia locked her eyes sternly on the screen, curious to see how Lupa 'judged' the Roman demigods.
Still, she shuffled Naruto behind her and whipped her berretta out, taking aim.
"Really taking a liking to this woman all over again." Artemis' smile slightly grew, not many had the courage to aim a weapon at Lupa.
Poseidon couldn't stop his wide grin, he certainly knew how to pick them.
"Well, well...what have we here?" the wolf asked, speaking like a human would with a female voice. Kushina wasn't too worried about that, considering the size of the wolf. The wolf chuckled. "Brave little human, aren't you?"
"Yes she is." Athena muttered. Though she hated to admit it, as the woman was a Roman's lover, but she was slightly impressed herself.
"You're Lupa...The mother of Remus and Romulus?" Kushina said in return. She had brushed up on her Roman mythology over the course of the past three years.
"Just like Mom," Percy said. Yep, his dad knew how to pick them alright.
A stick cracked and Kushina turned to lock her weapon on a wolf approaching from the left. A quick survey of her environment revealed to Kushina that she was surrounded.
"Nine bullets," Apollo said with a deep voice. "Nine wolves."
"Apollo..."
"What? Sis, it so needed to be said. Besides, if she could shoot like that, it would be so awesome!"
"I am. You're rather educated for a mortal, but that means nothing. Be gone, I must judge the child you've brought to my home." Lupa said with a scowl forming on her face. Kushina turned and locked the gun's barrel back on Lupa.
"Momma no like that plan." Hermes whistled.
"I don't leave until I'm sure you won't kill him." Kushina said, her face stony. She heard Naruto mumbling as he clung to her leg, but couldn't make out his words. She dared a glance down and saw that he had picked up a rock.
"Brave for a three year old." Reyna blinked in surprise.
"Going right for a weapon." Athena huffed. "As expected of the brute's loins."
"Damn right!" Poseidon grinned proudly and Percy beamed along with him. The sea didn't take things lying down!
"You dare defy me?" Lupa said, arching a brow. Kushina said nothing, her eyes conveying the emotions she felt. Lupa continued to stare until her mouth curled up into a smirk. "I like you, mortal.
"Words you barely hear." Jason said with an amused smile. Lupa usually didn't like mortals, just demigods, and there was only a handful that she took a shine to.
Very well...bring him forward and I will judge him before you. If he is weak, I will kill the both of you so you don't have to suffer a mother's broken heart."
"Gee, thanks," Percy said sarcastically. While he liked Lupa, she was a bit of a coldhearted bitch at times…and it had nothing to do with the fact she was a wolf.
"Gee, thanks." Kushina said, scowling. She slowly lowered her gun and crouched down, putting her hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Go on, baby. Mommy's right here."
"To load her full of bullets." Ares added. Athena was smiling at the idea. The two were surprisingly getting along well this time…was it a sign of the end?
Naruto looked at his mother then at what he dubbed 'big doggie' before shuffling out. He glanced back at Kushina, getting a nod from her, before walking openly up to Lupa. The 'big doggie's piercing gaze had him stopping in his tracks. Lupa sniffed him loudly, making him giggle at the brushing of air over his skin before she smirked.
"If she didn't say she might kill him, that would be kind of cute." Thalia admitted.
"Agreed." Piper nodded, her lips pursed lightly.
"It's been a long time since I've had any seafood." Lupa said.
"Oh come on, that was in poor taste." Poseidon frowned.
"Nonsense, it sounded rather accurate." Zeus smirked at the a scowl he got from his brother while Hades smirked lightly.
Kushina raised the handgun back up, aiming it at the she-wolf and cocked it, fully prepared to unload rounds of bronze-tipped bullets into the wolf goddess.
"Over my dead body." Kushina said with her eyes dangerously narrowed.
"Kushina agrees." Poseidon sniffed, good on her.
"It was only a joke, mortal." Lupa said dryly, making Kushina blink owlishly.
"Lupa can joke?" Jason said in sheer surprise with raised brows and wide eyes. "That's…scary."
"Yeah, it's like Arte joking." Apollo nodded in agreement. He grunted at the punch he got in the arm.
She knew from Naruto's father that Roman's had a strange sense of humor, but still. Lupa smirked and released a throaty chuckle. "He will make a strong Roman. You may go."
"No doubt like his brother." Reyna commented to the boy, who looked sheepish. Even if he wasn't Roman, he was actually eager to see his interactions with this Naruto.
"...C-Can I say goodbye?" Kushina asked as the weight of the reality of Naruto's acceptance hit her. She was fully prepared to shoot her way out of the forest and flee to the borders of the gods' reach with Naruto in tow. Now, she would have to leave her son, her baby, to the goddess.
Lupa gave Kushina a mild look of annoyance. "Mortals and their sentimentalities. Fine. Be quick about it."
"Sorry for being human," Thalia said sarcastically.
"Technically, you're immortal, so does that still count?"
"Not the point, Jay."
Kushina nodded and holstered her gun, nearly rushing to Naruto as he walked back to her with a smile. She fell to her knees and pulled the toddler into a hug, kissing him on the head. She felt the tears pouring now, but didn't dare fight them back.
"Boo!" Ares jeered. "Skip this crap already!"
"Ares," Hera frowned. How dare he mock a mother, that ungrateful brat. "Silence."
The war god frowned with crossed arms.
"Whatever." He mumbled.
"Mommy, don't be sad!" Naruto said, making her smile even wider. He was a really sweet boy, her son. She rubbed his cheeks with her thumbs and kissed his head once more.
"Mommy loves you, Naruto. Don't ever forget that, okay?" Kushina asked. Naruto nodded, getting another tight smile from her as she fought back openly sobbing. She reached around her neck, pulling off her dog tags and putting them around Naruto's neck. "Don't lose these, munchkin. They'll make sure you see Mommy again, okay?"
"Aww, that sweet of her," Hestia smiled. It was somewhat heartbreaking to see this, and it was why she didn't enjoy the Roman training, even as Vesta. It was just too strict in her mind, or at least her Greek mindset.
"Okay Mommy." Naruto said. He initiated the hug, trying to make his mother's depression go away. Kushina hugged him back tightly, murmuring more sweet words to him. It was more for Kushina than it was for the poor confused blond boy.
The wolf goddess' throat clearing told Kushina that she was out of time and regrettably let go of Naruto. She backed away as Lupa walked forward, towering over the toddler and sitting on her haunches. Wiping the tears away to look professional, Kushina couldn't help but feel a bit resentful of Lupa, who would be in a sense be taking her child from her.
"Again, I know how you feel." Thalia frowned as Jason took her hand and squeezed it.
She watched the wolf goddess nuzzle Naruto's head and keep him in place before turning him around to go into the Wolf Lodge, leaving Kushina alone.
"I love you, Naruto." Kushina said softly, watching the darkness of the lodge swallow Lupa's retreating form. She turned and left, silently vowing never to return to the place that should've stayed burnt to the ground.
"It holds too many painful memories." Thalia guessed, she didn't like the place all that much either when she had to defend Hera.
"Wake, pup." Lupa said, nudging the toddler named Naruto with her paw. The blond boy blearily rolled onto his back and sat up with a yawn. Naruto rubbed at his eyes and looked around through a half-sleeping gaze for his mother. Lupa sensed this, having gone through with it a few times before, and sighed. Another rough breaking, it seemed.
"Rough breaking to her is as blunt as a two by four." Percy muttered as he continued reading.
"Get up, pup." Lupa said, this time with more force. Naruto was awake at that, moving with a sharp turn, making his mother's dog tags clink together. Lupa paused at the sound of them. That would not do. She bent forward and bit the chain around Naruto's neck, pulling it off his head.
"She didn't!" Hestia gasped with narrowed eyes. The other immortal mothers all looked just as unsettled as the Goddess of the Hearth along with the demigoddesses.
"Okay, that's pushing it." Artemis frowned. She'd have to remember to have a small...chat with Lupa.
That action certainly got the toddler's attention.
"Mine!" Naruto said, reaching for the tags given to him. "Mine! Mine!"
"My precious!" Leo began a Gollum impression, but got slapped by Piper. He hissed and held his cheek. "Ow, sorry."
"You'd better be." The Charmspeaker frowned. "Not cool. You should know better, Leo."
"Yeah, sorry...the other stories were a bit more lighthearted compared to this..." Leo mumbled.
"No." Lupa said with the chain in her mouth. She carried it over to a shelf where other small trinkets were and set it down. Seeing the dog tags being put away made Naruto react as any toddler would, he started to throw a fit.
"Poseidon used to do that all the time" Hades stage whispered, which got him some snickers.
Poseidon flushed lightly. "I did not!"
"Oh yes you did," Hestia giggled when her younger brother started to brood at the betrayal.
Lupa was more than used to this and barked at him. "You will not cry! Your body is unharmed and your stomach is half-full!"
"He's three!" Annabeth gaped at how mean the goddess was to a toddler.
"Do you see why I was so unwelcoming to them, Annabeth?" her mother sniffed. "Savages to their own children."
Reyna rolled her eyes at the anti-Roman comment, but said nothing. She figured there must be some lingering anger after millennia of insult.
"M-mine!" Naruto said in return. "Mommy gave me..."
"You will have them back when I deem it time to give them back. Come, pup. Time to meet your pack mate. Jason!" Lupa said, her voice echoing in the room.
"Finally," Thalia said with keen interest.
"Do we get to see little baby Jason?" Piper cooed to her boyfriend. A healthy flush crossed the face of the tall blond boy.
"Um…" the son of Rome stammered a bit.
Naruto, his eyes still a bit red, turned and looked as a boy his age, his eyes electric blue but otherwise looking similar to himself, walked over to them.
"They're like little twins!" Hazel gushed while Piper and Thalia started to coo at little Jason. The boy in question buried his face in his hands.
"Kill me." He plead in a murmur. Percy gave him a pity pat on the shoulder. Now he knows how he felt whenever he appeared as a child.
"You know," Aphrodite giggled. "That's probably what their sons will look like~"
That got some blushes from the girls who had dated or held interest in Naruto in other universes and Piper, who was now looking at Jason with curious eyes.
"We already knew that, Dite." Apollo pointed out with a grin. "The name Bolt ring any bells?"
Thalia turned red and Zeus scowled while Aphrodite gasped.
"You're right! Yes! Universal fact three: his baby's babies are going to be adorable!"
"...Read, Percy Jackson, read." Artemis urged.
"Yes, Lupa?" Jason asked, tilting his head.
The she-wolf nodded in Naruto's direction. "Meet your pack mate. Introduce yourself, pup."
"Hi!" Naruto said, forgetting why he was crying with the new person here. "I'm Naruto."
"Ah children, so fickle and easy to forget things." Hestia giggled, getting some laughs, too. It was true.
"Jason." Jason said, righting himself and then looking at Lupa. "He's new?"
"Indeed." Lupa said, turning to leave the lodge. "Come, pups. Today I teach you to stalk."
"So, what does she even teach?" Leo asked his friend.
"Just basics on how to survive and some fighting skills. The rest you really learn from the Legion." Jason answered.
"I see," Thalia muttered, glaring at the screen a bit.
Jason nodded and followed, Naruto hurrying after him so as not to be left behind. Lupa led them into the woods, Naruto being sniffed at by the wolves that waited for them. He giggled at the ticklish sniffs before hurrying at the 'big doggie's bark of his name.
"I think she has a stick up her butt."
"Thalia," Jason frowned, he liked Lupa.
"She isn't wrong." Athena said as Artemis gave a wishy-washy motion of her hand. She kind of agreed with her wise sister, even by her standards.
Lupa had them crawl through the dirt, though she growled when Naruto tried to stop and play with some mud. That was kind of mean of her if you asked him.
"Very mean," Hazel giggled. "Oh man, why does he have to be such a cute little boy?"
"Because Naruto is all about the cute." Piper shrugged. Jason looked at her and she arched a brow. "What? It's like Percy and the seal thing."
"What seal?" Percy frowned. Jason just waved him off
"That would be a waste of time," Reyna pointed out as Hazel rolled her gold eyes.
"He's three."
"He's a demigod."
"He's my brother and I'm tryin' to read." Percy cut in, a tad annoyed with all the interruptions.
"Walk softly, pups. Let the grass conceal you. Blend." Lupa instructed. Naruto looked to Jason, who shrugged and began tip-toing until Lupa growled. "Walk, Jason. Do not pretend to be something you aren't."
"Yeah, walk like a person Jason, honestly." Thalia sighed out and her little brother grumbled to himself with crossed arms.
The two boys shared another look before walking through the grass. Lupa continued to instruct them, giving them tips until they were able to properly stalk through the grass like a wolf. She rewarded the both of them by taking them on a hunt with her pack, showing the two 'pups' how to work as one unit. It would be a lesson that the two would take to the grave together.
"Teamwork, yeah!" Leo pumped his fist.
"Go team!" Piper added.
Jason pouted at them, it was a good lesson!
"Come here, bunny. Come here, come here..." the voice of a small boy said into a hole under a tree. Naruto sat back with a frown, his brows creasing together and the wheels in his head turning.
"Incredibly slow no doubt."
"Athena!" Hestia glared. "Really, mocking a small child?"
"…Sorry." The goddess admitted, but it was hard not to say something on it.
"Thank you, Hestia." Poseidon smirked at Athena while Hestia nodded at him.
He grinned and put his face into the hole once more, giving a savage and well replicated wolf-like growl, forcing the rabbit to exit through the second opening right into another blond boy's arms.
"Got him! Ow!" Jason said, adjusting his hold on the struggling rabbit after it bit him on the arm.
"That hurts like you would not believe." Jason winced.
"Really?" Leo asked in disbelief.
"Dude, have you not seen their teeth?"
He winced with each kick of the bunny's leg. "Sorry, but we need to eat and you're all we could find."
"Aw, saying sorry to the poor bunny."
"Shut up, Thalia." Jason pouted, killing a little bunny was a big deal for a little kid. He had to do it on his own.
"At least it's not spring." Naruto said, getting a nod of agreement from his friend.
The two of them swiftly ended the unfortunate rabbit's misery, taking it back to their makeshift camp just a few miles into the forest from the Wolf House. A few weeks ago, Lupa had said she had prepared them as best she could and sent them out from the Wolf House to a place called Camp Jupiter.
"That's nice of her," Thalia said darkly. What was her brother now? Four years old?
"It's how it is." Jason told her.
"Well, it's dumb." The hunter huffed. She didn't like it at all.
Before she kicked them out, Lupa finally returned Naruto's dog tags, which he proudly wore around his neck.
"About time," Hestia said firmly.
Jason had gotten a gold coin that was left on the shelf.
"I miss that coin." Jason pouted, Juno's Gladius was good and all, but lugging it around…the coin was far more functional.
Jason started the fire easily while Naruto prepared the rabbit to be cooked. Within minutes, they were eating cooked rabbit, dousing the fire and looking up at the faded stars.
"That's pretty skillful for little kids," Frank said with a blink.
"Yeah, little kids with fire. That's always a good thing." Thalia sarcastically remarked.
"I know it was for me."
"Shut up, Leo."
"There's the North Star." Naruto said, pointing the star out. "Lupa said the camp was just a bit to the east and south."
"So we go...that way." Jason said, bringing his finger down from the star to the direction of where they were supposed to go.
"No one ever uses the stars anymore." Artemis frowned as Hermes snickered.
"Artemis, it's called GPS."
"…But still!"
"Yep." Naruto said, sighing as he laid back and tossed the remains of his food to the woods for a scavenger to finish up. He wrapped his hand around the two larger tags on his necklace, frowning as he looked at the name imprinted on it.
"I feel for ya kid." Percy frowned, he would miss his mom too if he ended up like that.
"What are those anyway?" Jason asked.
"Dog tags." Naruto said, getting a rock thrown at his arm. "Ow! They are!"
"Jason!" Thalia scolded with a glare. "Really, throwing rocks?"
"Seriously, you're going to scold me now?"
"Well, I couldn't then!"
"I know that! What do they say?" Jason asked, frowning at his friend.
"Kushina Uzumaki. They're my mommy's." Naruto said, rubbing his thumb over the name. "I remember her a bit...kind of. Red hair. That's all I get. And this happy feeling in my chest."
"That's love dear," Aphrodite smiled sweetly.
"I don't remember my mommy." Jason said softly.
"Hope you never do." Thalia scowled and Jason sighed.
He probably shouldn't mention that he met their mother's spirit.
"I remember a girl, though. Her name was Ta...Ta, something. All I know is that it started with a T. She was really nice to me."
Thalia's chest tightened, so he did remember, but couldn't remember her name? It was both kind and painful to the immortal girl.
"Sorry." Jason muttered to her, but she shook her head.
"Hey, as long as you remembered me in some way, it's fine."
"...I miss my mommy." Naruto said, still looking at the dog tags. His green eyes hardened as he clenched his fingers around them. "I'm gonna find her after we get to the camp."
"Yeah," Percy said to Jason. "What about the parents?"
"That's a whole other thing." Jason sighed. "It would take a while to explain."
"And we'd rather hear the story, go on Percy." His father urged.
"I'll help you." Jason said, making Naruto sit up a bit to look at him. Jason smiled at his friend, the cut on his lip curling a bit. "We're pack-brothers, right? We stick together and we can do anything."
"Aww," Thalia and Piper cooed teasingly, the latter pinched her boyfriend's cheek. Jason flustered in embarrassment. Geez, his rep was going down!
"Yeah!" Naruto said in agreement. Looking back at the sky, his smile died down a bit. "Do you think we'll find out who our dads are?"
"Probably. Lupa said so." Jason said. "Bet my dad's cooler than yours."
"He is," Zeus said quickly as Poseidon snorted.
"Ha, you wish!"
"I know!"
"Please!"
"Oh, that's enough! Honestly, the both of you." Hera glared at her husband and brother. "Like children!"
"They are." Hades commented. He smirked and ignored the glares from his brothers.
"Nuh-uh! My dad could probably kick your dad's butt!"
"He could not." Zeus mumbled.
"Yeah right!"
"He could so!"
"Atta boy." The sea god grinned.
"Could not!"
They spiraled off into the playful argument before Naruto pounced on his pack-brother, both of them tumbling around in a fight before separating when Naruto slammed Jason into the ground.
"Ha! I win!" Naruto said, sitting on his friend's chest.
"Little Jay just got owed by little Naruto."
"Leo!" Jason said, looking betrayed. Leo looked at him and pointed his thumb at the screen.
"The Lion King beat down don't lie dude."
Jason pouted.
"Get off!" Jason said, pushing the taller blond off of him. Naruto smirked at Jason, making the boy roll his blue eyes. "Whatever. So you won, big deal. Still bet my dad could beat your dad."
"What a very Zeus-like thing to say." Hades smirked. "You lose and then say something else to make yourself feel better."
Zeus fumed at that and glared at his eldest brother, but he dared not retort since Hestia was looking at him challengingly.
"We'll just have to wait and see." Naruto said, smirking as he looked at the night sky. "I'll watch first tonight."
"Yeah, okay." Jason said, rolling onto his side. "Night, Nar."
"Night Jay."
"Aww, little nicknames~" Aphrodite cooed.
Jason groaned. He wanted to hide in a hole somewhere.
Naruto and Jason made some good distance the next morning, wandering into a small town at the crack of dawn and avoiding any suspicion by playing at a playground for a while...Okay, they got distracted, but could you blame them? They were four.
"Perfect place to hide if you're a kid." Leo nodded.
"So incognito~" Piper teased Jason, who crossed his arms and pouted.
Percy had a small smirk on his face. Finally, the Golden Boy felt his pain.
As the sun started to set, Naruto and Jason left their new friends, claiming to be going home, when they would actually start taking note of where food would be sold.
"Devious little things you two are." Annabeth noted with a sly smile.
"Oh come on, not you too!"
When the sun was down and the streetlights were on, they took short hour and a half long naps, getting some energy before the middle of the night came.
"Aww, does Jay need his little nappy-poo?"
"Shut up Leo!"
"He would sleep all the time, seriously."
"Thalia, I was two!"
"A lazy two-year-old is what you were."
Jason threw his hands up. He couldn't win with these people.
In the dark of night, the two blonds set out for supplies. Their first target was food, so they hit up the small gas station on the corner of the street.
"Couple of street thugs in diapers. Straight outta daycare."
"Nico." Jason groaned, so not cool.
Nico shrugged and smirked while Apollo laughed at the play on a song verse.
"Door's locked." Jason said, walking back from trying the doors and windows to Naruto's seat on the curb. "So are the windows."
"They tend to be." Frank pointed out as Jason glared at him.
"We're kids raised by a goddess, social norms are not our thing."
"Meh, excuses." The Canadian shrugged.
Jason was starting to understand why Zeus blasted first and asked questions never.
"Okay. So now what? I'm hungry." Naruto said, picking a rock up and tossing it into the street. Jason rolled his eyes. Naruto was a vacuum when it came to food, and yet none of it showed. The boy was just always hungry.
"He has my appetite." Poseidon chuckled in pride.
"It's the reason the fork was model after the Trident." Hermes winked at the demigods, who laughed along with the sea god.
"Well we could break in by smashing a window, but then the cops might show up." Jason said.
"Bad boys, bad boys." Leo sung.
"What'cha gonna do? What'cha gonna do? What'cha gonna do when they come for you." Hermes and Apollo chorused.
"How do you know?" Naruto asked, weighing the rock in his hand. It was prime material to throw it into a window.
"There's that Roman violence streak."
"Athena, enough." Hera groaned, they got it the first few times!
The wisdom goddess huffed. It would never be enough.
"I just do." Jason said, shrugging. He always had a keen idea on what was right and wrong.
"Justice." Zeus grinned proudly at his Roman son.
"Weird." Naruto said. He rocked back and got to his feet, still holding his rock.
"Rebellion!" Poseidon beamed and Zeus scowled.
"What are you doing?"
"Getting food."
"What?!" Jason asked, doing a double take just as Naruto pulled his hand back. "No, wait!"
"But...But I'm hungry, Jay." Naruto said, pouting at his friend.
"Food…possibly blue food."
"Percy," Annabeth said slowly. "He isn't you. He clearly likes Roman."
"I'll introduce him to blue food." The son of the sea decided sternly with a fire in his eyes. "The torch must be passed!"
"There could be an access on the roof." Jason said.
"...That'll take too long!" Naruto said.
Leo looked at his friend. "What, do you have a rope or something in your Huggies?"
"We could just climb it."
"And break your necks." Thalia told her brother with a disappointed shake of her head.
"We have all night, Nar."
"But we could hit more shops if we just break the window!"
"...True...Rock, Paper, Scissors?"
"Best way to figure out anything these days." Apollo snickered.
"...New idea-"
"No, Poseidon." Zeus scowled at his brother.
"You didn't even let me finish!"
"I said no!"
"You're on!"
Naruto won, much to Jason's dismay.
"Guess he's still lucky." Hazel noted with a smirk as Jason groaned. Great, this did not bode well for his other.
"Yet another Universal fact…" Leo mumbled.
Unfortunately, there was an alarm, but fortunately, Naruto and Jason were quick enough to break in and out before the cops showed up. The two retreated to the woods, finding shelter beneath a fallen tree. The wind was warm, favoring their fragile bodies that were protected by thin old clothes, and giving them enough of a breeze to start another fire.
"Nice going kids." Hermes praised with thumbs up. "Especially you, Jason. If you ever want lessons, just ask."
"No," Thalia and Hera said as one, making them glare at each other.
"I'll pass," Jason said wisely, not wanting to incur the wrath of his sister and matron.
"Ugh, I can't read any of this!" Naruto said, annoyed as he tossed one of the small yellow bags with a red circle on it to the side. "How are we supposed to know what we can cook if we can't read it!?"
"Dyslexic plus never learning to read from Lupa, not fun." Jason sighed, it was kinda hard to learn stuff from the older kids of the Legion, but he managed it.
"You have some killer vocabulary, though." Annabeth pointed out.
"We're probably speaking in Latin." Jason shrugged. Dead though it may be, he knew it by heart. "Lupa taught the language to me since I had trouble with English sometimes."
"Huh...interesting."
"At least you got some Lays." Percy said, chips plus one.
"We could always open them and find out what's in them." Jason suggested as he shook a green can. He was listening for what it held and was pleased to hear a liquid. "I got drinks!"
"Watch as its alcohol." Dionysus said with an amused smirk. The gods and demigods laughed, snorted, snickered or smirked while the goddesses and demigoddesses glared at him or scowled in disapproval.
"Cool...how do you open it?" Naruto asked.
"Uh..." Jason looked over the can, turning it around and running his thumb over the red M on the side before looking on the top. "Maybe you tug this thing off?"
"Phew, Mountain Dew." Jason sighed out, lucky him. Still abstaining strong.
"You'll be up all night with that." Thalia frowned in sisterly disapproval.
"Thalia." Jason groaned. "Stop babying me. Now."
"I promise nothing.
"Give it here." Naruto said, being the stronger of the two. They discovered this when Naruto stopped a tree from falling on Jason during their training a few months back after a storm.
"Wait, what?" The demigods shared an unanimous owlish blink.
"He has super strength?" Percy asked aloud.
"All of the other Naruto's do as well." Hera noted. Leo wrote down another Universal fact.
"Yeah, but..." Percy looked to his dad. "Why him?"
"Well, if you had gotten it, Mr. High-And-Mighty and his doorman of a son probably would've cried copyright infringement." Poseidon said, smirking as Zeus glared at him. The sea god turned his attention back to his son. "So, why not do something fresh and have a Roman with super strength?"
"...I feel a bit gipped." Percy mumbled.
"You're already broken enough as it is," Annabeth said consolingly.
"...Still gipped."
"Just read, Seaweed Brain."
Naruto only suffered a few splinters from the bark, but the discovery had him working on control over this whenever he could.
Jason handed the can over and Naruto gripped one edge of the can before ripping it open...and getting sprayed by the contents.
"I so saw that coming," Percy laughed with the others. "Nice one Jason."
"That was an accident." Jason sheepishly rubbed his neck.
Jason enjoyed this immensely, falling to his back in laughter while the sticky drink dripped off of Naruto's face. The taller blond boy glared at his laughing friend.
"Ooh, someone's mad." Frank snickered as Hazel held his arm while laughing.
"I think Naruto is one for payback." Leo mused. He wrote down 'Prankster of Vengeance' on his list.
"Very funny." Naruto said, grabbing another can and shaking it as fast as he could before aiming it at Jason. He ripped the top off and showered the laughing boy in the liquid. "Not so funny now, is it?"
"A swift counter." Reyna commented, which got Jason to frown at her.
"Whose side are you on?"
"The blond one's."
"...Oh now you have a sense of humor?"
"I don't know what you're talking about. I've always had a sense of humor."
"Nar! Naruto! Stop!" Jason said as he was caked in the soda. When it died he glared at the snickering boy. "Funny. Now we're down two drinks, idiot!"
"I sense another argument coming." Hades groaned.
"Just like their fathers." Hera rolled her eyes as the fathers in question frowned at her. Or to be more accurate, pouted and brooded respectively.
"You started it!"
"It was an accident!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Yeah it was!"
"They're really just like you two when we started out." Hestia giggled. The two gods looked put out at her comment and the demigods snickered in agreement.
So began another scuffle between the two boys. Jason turned victorious that night and took the first watch after dinner of potato chips and the soda they managed to steal. It was just another night for the two demigods and thankfully, it was a peaceful one. They would need the rest for the coming morning.
"And that isn't ominous at all," Leo said.
"What did you do?!" Jason asked as they ran from the angry monster that chased them.
"Yep, not ominous at all."
"Of course it would be the sea brat's fault." Zeus scoffed as Poseidon glared at him.
It was a mean giant pig, two large horns coming out from next to its snout. Its' speed was hindered by the trees.
"Why do you always blame me?!" Naruto asked in return.
"See?" Poseidon defended his boy.
"Because you always do something! What did you do?!"
"I just poked it with a stick!"
Zeus gave his brother a smirk that made the sea god wisely shut his mouth as a snicker escaped Percy's lips. He'd do that, too.
"I sincerely doubt that!"
"What does sincerely mean?"
"Yeah Jay," Piper snickered. "You're four, save the big boy words for a few more years."
"Piper!"
"It means...Never mind what it means! Why did you poke it!?"
"I was bored!"
Annabeth turned to her boyfriend. "No poking things when bored, okay?"
"Ha, ha." Percy said with a dry laugh and went back into the book.
"And you never once thought that could be a bad idea!?"
"It took a lot of pokes!"
"That's an excellent point." Frank laughed with Hazel as Percy rolled his eyes.
"You're a real comedian, Frank."
"I try."
"I don't care! Keep running!" Jason groaned at his friend's obliviousness. Naruto was not the sharpest tool in the shed at times.
All eyes turned to Percy and he glared back at them.
"You people suck, seriously."
"Not our fault if it's true, Wethead Wonder." Thalia mocked with a snort.
He was far too easy going for his own good, but had a temper at times.
"Like his father." Athena commented. Poseidon rolled his eyes.
"I've gotten much better over the years, until like Miss Hubris."
Athena shot him a look, and he returned it.
And once again, like that time Naruto tried to take back his dog tags before Lupa stopped him. Jason could've sworn that the ground shook with Naruto's tantrum.
"Joy," Hades said dryly. "Now I have to deal with your brat shaking my location every time he doesn't get a cookie."
"Ramen." Nico corrected.
"Whatever."
Squeal!
Jason was torn out of his small memories by the giant pig's threatening call. The two four year olds continued to run while the relatively car-sized boar chased after them until a tree blocked their path.
"I wonder which one that is?" Artemis mused curiously.
The boys tumbled over it, Jason's coin flying out of his pocket as he landed roughly on his arm while Naruto fell into a roll, rolling down a hill into the small river at the bottom.
"Nice," Percy and Jason said. Percy for Naruto getting into the water and Jason for his coin flying in the air, no doubt flipping.
Jason shielded his eyes as the coin shone in the air, transforming into a gold sword that landed imbedded in the ground. Jason felt the tremor of the ground as the boar approached and he scrambled to his feet, running as fast as he could to his sword and pulling it out of the ground as he rushed to his friend's aide.
"Fight on, Jason!" Reyna cheered for the young boy.
"He's four." Piper told the Roman war girl.
"He is a Roman, he has a sword, thus he can fight." She argued like it was that simple.
"...He's four!" Thalia heatedly protested.
"Age is but a detail."
Naruto sank into the water, his eyes going wide and his mouth opening with a gasp as it entered his lungs. Unlike with normal human physiology, Naruto didn't immediately start to drown. Instead he felt empowered. Like he could do anything he wanted.
"Whoo, go my boy!" Poseidon cheered for his Roman son.
Including stopping the bad pig chasing him and his friend.
"So, who wants some bacon?" Percy asked, getting raised hands from most of the demigods.
Piper scowled. "Disgusting."
Naruto instinctively shot out of the water, dripping wet as he glared at the approaching boar. Jason reached out to grab him, but Naruto slipped through his grasp, rushing forward and bringing his small fist back.
"Here it comes, super water boost super strength punch attack!"
"…You are never allowed to name anything, ever." Annabeth deadpanned and Percy looked sheepish.
"Does that include your children?" Piper asked innocently and the couple flushed. She smirked when they glared at her.
"Leave us alone!" Naruto said, driving his fist forward and impacting with the end of the pig's snout.
"Please, like that thing will get much distance." Ares waved off.
There was a loud boom as the pig soared back, and several smaller ones from the trees being knocked down by the flying boar.
Athena turned to her brother with a smirk.
"You were saying?" she asked.
"Supporting Romans now, Minerva?" The war god quickly mocked back and his sister scowled at him for the Minerva remark.
The noise got the distant attention of a certain guardian, but it mostly made Jason look at his friend in shock. Naruto also looked very surprised by what he had just done.
"Nar...how'd you do that?" Jason asked as he got to his feet, holding the sword nearly as long as he was tall with ease.
"And you look so adorable with it." Piper teased, making Jason palm his face. Honestly, it had to be his size.
"I...I don't know." Naruto said honestly. He shrugged, the water rolling off of him easily. He opened his mouth to speak again but was cut off by the angry squeal. "Uh oh."
"Run boys, that piggy's hungry!" Ares laughed.
"Like another pig." Artemis snorted.
"Yep!" Ares made a leg of goat appear in his hand. It vanished before he could take a bite and he glared at Hestia, who scowled at him.
"Don't be crude."
"Whatever."
"My turn." Jason said as he stepped up, prepared to return the favor Naruto did him by punching the boar, and readied his sword. He held it above his head, waiting like Lupa taught him before he struck. The boar squealed as it approached and Jason brought his sword down, slicing right into its skull and turning the boar to dust, leaving behind two tusks.
"Nice little Jay!" Thalia praised as Jason smiled too.
A scratch that looks like a bolt marked one and the other had been chipped, leaving three tips.
"One can only wonder what those mean." Hades rolled his eyes.
"Cool..." Naruto said, seeing the giant pig disappear into golden dust with awe written on his face. Jason bent over and picked the two tusks up, walking back to his friend with the three tipped tusk offered.
"How'd he know?" Annabeth asked.
"Instinct," Zeus said smugly. It was his son who got the kill after all.
"Here, take it." Jason said. Naruto did, looking over the tusk with interest before Jason gasped. Looking at his friend, Naruto then followed the pointed finger to where it was pointing. Beyond the river was a large wall, two doors facing them.
"Welcome to New Rome," Reyna said with a smirk. It was about time they got there.
"...What do you think that is?" Naruto asked.
"Might be the camp." Jason said.
"Really?" Naruto said, arching a brow and scratching his cheek in thought. "I always thought of a camp as more...campy."
"The brochures were a lie," Percy said. The Greeks snickered at that and the Roman's frowned.
"It's worth looking." Jason said, walking forward and immediately sinking in the riverbed, causing him to land face first in the water.
"Oops," Poseidon said sheepishly as his brother glared at him heatedly.
He was pulled out by Naruto and once he finished gasping up what felt liked gallons of water asked. "Wh-What was that!?"
Poseidon just whistled innocently when Jason looked at him with wide eyes.
"That was weird." Naruto said.
"Let's see if we can find a bridge." Jason said. "I'd rather not drown."
"Poseidon!"
"It was an accident!"
The two boys walked around the water, Naruto occasionally stepping in to enjoy the water – something Jason was a bit envious of – and after a while of walking, they found a small bridge with a statue at the other side of it outside another set of doors.
"Terminus, great." Percy groaned, while his help was nice, the dude was over strict.
They shared a look and a grin, bursting into a run and racing across the bridge. Jason just barely managed to beat Naruto to the doors.
"Halt!" The two blonds jumped at the sudden shout. They looked at the statue that was looking right at them. "What brings two children to Camp Jupiter?!"
"What other reason you idiot statue?" Athena mocked, honestly, as if seeing a talking statue wasn't a giveaway to mortals, even with Hecate using the Mist.
"This is the camp?" Naruto asked, sharing a grin with Jason. "It only took us a month! Lupa so owes us some deer."
"It took me longer." Percy muttered with a pout.
"Wow, lose direction dude?" Leo asked.
"Shut up, Leo."
"Yeah!" Jason said, high fiving his friend.
"Lupa sent you two? Children? Ha! I'll have bedded a Greek before...
"Wow, way to break the hush-hush rule, Terminus." Frank deadpanned, so much for rules.
"He never said they existed in the East, just mentioned their existence. It was a rather common insult back in the day," Apollo said informatively.
"Oh."
What's that in your hand?" the statue asked.
"These? These are tusks from some mean pig."
"Yeah, a big meanie face!" Hazel giggled. This was really fun.
"Nar, the pig was mean because you woke it up!"
"Oh come on, we killed it didn't we?"
"Like real wee heroes," Leo said in a squeaky voice. Piper playfully pushed him.
"Quiet!" the statue said, his order getting the bantering blonds to become just that. "I am Terminus, guardian of Camp Jupiter. Name yourselves and present to me your trophies."
"...What?" Naruto asked.
"Definitely slow like Percy."
"Nico, go drown."
"Nah, I'm good."
Terminus sighed. "Tell me your name and show me the tusk."
"Ohh...why didn't you just say that?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, they're kids. Simple words Mr. Stiff." Leo mock scolded.
"Well, Jason did use 'sincerely'," Piper said with a smile to her boyfriend. "He's a special boy."
"Yes, which is why he tried to eat that stapler."
"Thalia!" Jason groaned.
"Just...You, boy with the cut on his lip. What is your name?" Terminus asked.
"Oh, um. I'm Jason Grace." Jason said, then holding his tusk up. As he did, the sky darkened and there were a few booms from the clouds. Terminus looked up with wide eyes.
"Is that a Roman claiming?" Annabeth asked Jason curiously and he nodded. "Huh, I think the glowing holograms are cooler."
"We're Greek," Hermes snickered. "We're always cooler."
The Romans looked ready to disagree with that statement, but settled for just displeased frowns crossing their faces.
"Oh my...Welcome, welcome. Welcome Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, lord of the sky and king of Olympus." Terminus said.
"Suck up." Nico coughed and cleared his throat when Reyna glared at him. "Sorry, had something stuck in my throat."
"Uh-huh."
He looked at the other boy. "And you are?"
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki!" Naruto said, raising his own tusk. Unlike Jason, Naruto nearly fell over after he raised his trophy. Terminus' already wide eyes widened to plate sized proportions as the ground shook.
"And that's not going to bring any bad luck to the kid at all." Frank muttered.
Poseidon frowned. It wasn't his fault the Romans were such scaredy-cats.
"...No...Not another one." Terminus said softly.
"Whiney little bitch." Ares rolled his eyes behind his shades.
Naruto heard it and frowned, not understanding what he meant.
"You won't until you're discriminated that is." Percy pointed out helpfully.
"He's Naruto," Annabeth pointed out, "I think he'll redeem the name on his own."
"...But I did that." Percy pouted while Leo added yet another Universal fact, simplifying it as 'discriminated by people'.
"And I still thank you Percy." His father grinned, getting one back from his son.
Before the poor boy could ask, Terminus cleared his throat and a look of distaste was on his face. "Welcome Naruto Uzumaki, son of Neptune, lord of the sea."
"The Quaker-Shaker himself." Zeus jeered as he was glared at by Poseidon.
"Ha! I knew it! My dad's more awesome than yours, Jay!" Naruto said despite the silence that.
"No," Jason said childishly.
Jason just palmed himself in the face.
"Wow, even four-year-old Jason can do that." Leo said in awe as his friend glared at him.
"I had to learn early on and prepare myself for you." Jason shot back.
"Ouch."
His friend was an idiot sometimes.
"I know the feeling." Jason nodded. Leo frowned.
Percy smirked. "Well, that was awesome."
"Indeed it was." Poseidon smirked as well. "I can't wait to see what he does in the future."
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