I make an attempt at this to see if it would be a good story. If no one enjoys it, then I will discontinue it. There is nothing actually holding me to this story other than it refuses to leave my head.
In this story, Percy starts off rudely. He will eventually get better. Naruto will be the focus. He will also be very powerful. So yeah.
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Five will go west to the goddess in chains,
One shall be lost in the land without rain,
The bane of Olympus shows the trail,
Campers and Hunters combined prevail,
A mortal man join or all will die,
He will be known by his rippled eye,
The Titan's curse must this stranger withstand,
One nearly perish by a parent's hand.
No one at camp Half-Blood understood the prophecy. It made no sense. How would a mortal MAN have the power to change their fates? The very thought had disgusted Zoe Nightshade then, and it continued to do so now. Men were disgusting pigs, that was a fact, yet this prophecy required him. Driving haphazardly down the road was not the best place for these thoughts, sure, but it was worrying her. Her companions were lackluster as well. Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, and her mistress, Artemis, goddess of the hunt, were missing and she had to get help from camp Half-Blood. She hated the place. Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, had followed and demanded to be let on the quest. Bianca di Angelo, undetermined, had joined the Hunters of Artemis. Thaila Grace, daughter of Zeus, had come, and Zoe thought it was a good choice to have her. Grover Underwood was a satyr, however they needed him for tracking. He was still a MALE. She could have retched if it wouldn't cause them to crash.
As thoughts of who this mystery man may be, she was unprepared for the sudden figure that hit the hood of the vehicle.
She stopped immediately and got out. It could be danger or an ally. It could have even been a mortal who got in the way. Zoe hated not knowing.
Getting up from the ground was the oddest man Zoe had ever seen. He was close to six feet tall, and had on black cargo pants that stopped above his ankles. He wore a very bright orange shirt with a large red swirl design on it. Over that he wore some type of jacket with short sleeves and a high collar. It was black, and had red flames depicted on the bottom edge around mid-calf. He was blonde, a very golden color she remarked to herself, and had three distinctive whisker-like scars an each cheek. He had a roundish face, but that wasn't what caught her attention. She and he companions, who had gotten out to see what they hit, gasped when they saw his eyes. They were completely metallic purple, without any white in his eye, and four consecutive rings surrounded his pupil, which was smaller than she thought. He started speaking rapidly in a language she couldn't understand. She told him in English that she couldn't understand him and he sighed. He seemed slightly singed, and now that she looked, his black and red coat looked torn in several places. He walked up to Percy who tensed expecting an attack. The man lifted his hand up and gently placed his hand on Percy's head and muttered one word that they all understood.
"Gomen."
Sorry. Why would he be sorry? Their answer came as Percy tensed, then grimaced in pain. Right as he went to scream however, the man lifted his hand and Percy fell to his knees. He quickly backed up with his hands up and spoke again, this time in perfect English.
"I apologize. That was the quickest way to get anywhere. It is very uncomfortable, but allows me to extract memories or in this case knowledge of languages. I can do this because of my eyes. That is all I will say about them, so not ask. Zoe, I believe is your name, I am sorry to hear about this Artemis lady, and would be happy to help, but as I have no weapons that do any damage to these monsters, I'm afraid I'm useless to you, at least until I trust you to not kill me if I show you power. I don't know about my weapon I do possess, as it is but steel. I would love a spar when you recover completely, Percy."
They all looked at him like he had grown an extra head, except Percy who looked better and nodded. He lifted his shirt and looked sadly at what looked like a large spiral around his naval. He put his finger on it and a puff of smoke encased him. When it cleared, they all gasped at what they saw. He was standing there with possibly the biggest sword any of them had ever seen. It was easily five and a half feet long, and a foot wide. It was sharp on only one side, and had a perfectly round hole a foot from the tip. It had a half circle cut out of the sharp side a foot from the hilt. It was a shiny grey color, and it seemed, hungry.
"This beauty is Kubikiribocho. Executioner's blade in this language. It was given to me as a reminder of the man who wielded it before me. It is simple steel, and won't help you in your quest. Follow me to the woods over there." He said before walking off. Grover instantly looked better at the idea of woods. They arrived in a clearing and he faced off against Percy, who had his blade out. He looked at Percy's blade before nodding.
"You are a water user from what I saw of your memories. If you beat me I will teach you how to harness water from yourself. If I win, I want to trade you weapons with you. Not this one, but one I will make you. Deal?"
"How can you make one here?"
"I have many abilities, that is simply one. I need to know everything about something before I can make it however. I need a weapon able to harm monsters before I can copy it."
Seeing nothing wrong with that, Percy nodded. "I agree to your terms. I swear on the Styx I will follow them." Thunder boomed overhead.
Nodding, the man put his sword across his shoulders. "Whenever you're ready, attack me. Be ready, for I will only block once before I start hitting back."
Percy charged at the man who just stood there. When the sword would have hit him, he vanished. He reappeared behind Percy with the massive sword at his throat. He held it in one hand and said calmly, "Too slow."
Percy dropped his sword in shock. This was unreal. Without Luke in camp, he was undoubtedly the best swordsman there. This man beat him without crossing swords once. He picked up his sword and without a word, handed it over to this man.
His sword fastened to his back somehow, he accepted it. He then spoke softly, "I will still help you. I thank you for this opportunity."
He walked off and sat cross-legged against a tree. He looked at his companions who were shocked. He cleared his throat and gestured at the ground in front of him. They sat down.
"I know who all of you are. My name is Uzumaki Naruto. Wait. Naruto Uzumaki. Stupid custom change. Give me a few moments."
He held the sword parallel to the ground, one hand on the hilt, and one on the blade. He had a look of concentration on his face and his eyes glowed menacingly. He sat there for a long while. They saw him drop the sword, and saw anger in his eyes. He held out his hand and a pen appeared. He threw it at Percy and glared at the sword he had dropped. He said one word that only Zoe heard. "Hercules."
He picked it up gently. He looked at them all and with a sad look said, "I will meet you guys closer to the garden. Don't bother looking for me." He then vanished.
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NARUTO POV
I saw everything. That blade was a gift and he broke his word. I hate those who break their word. I don't even know where I am right now. I saw Percy's thoughts. He was envious. He was the best, now he isn't. I can reproduce the bronze now, anyway. Kubikiribocho will get bronzed later. I need to think.
Many, many hours later, I saw a large lion in my way. I simply wanted to get by, but it wanted to attack me. Seriously. It was easy with no one around.
"Human path: soul steal."
An incredibly useful jutsu I created. It can be resisted easier than the normal one, but instead of throwing away the soul or crushing it, I can absorb it. It lets me get ALL the memories it has. The monster left behind a trench coat I now knew to be impenetrable. I needed a new coat anyway.
I felt bad for those kids. So young and forced to grow up in a harsh reality. Granted being a ninja isn't much better. After Madara was dead the world feared me. I had lost Kurama and the tailed beasts were reforming. I knew the peace I left would last. I didn't want the seal I created to throw me on another world; I wanted it to seal me away. Beggars can't be choosers I suppose. I wonder which gods or goddesses would be helpful. Who would try to kill me? I doubted any could. My regeneration had risen to new heights when Kurama left. It was his last gift. Come to think of it, he looked at my sealing array while I had my back turned. I bet that fuzzy bastard changed it.
I eventually saw the kids on a mountain, running from monsters. Typical, I drew Kubikiribocho, which was now monster killing bronze, and decimated them all. None left anything.
"Where's the other one?" I asked.
They looked away from me. I knew what that meant. I immediately regretted my words. "Sorry."
They simply nodded. Zoe I noticed had a wound. It looked deadly, so I went to help.
"The poison will kill me soon. Don't waste thy time."
I, of course, ignored her. I drew the poison into myself and used a medical jutsu I learned from Tsunade-baa-chan and healed the wound. That ought to do it. The poison was harsh, let me tell you. It felt like acid across my entire body, and I know what that's like.
She looked shocked. Who wouldn't really? Preta path is more useful that one may think.
"How?"
"Secret!" I said happily.
We eventually made it to an area that had a lady trapped under a large black object. It looked really heavy. Being the nice guy I am, I enhanced my muscles with chakra, and used the replacement jutsu with her. She was beyond confused when she was suddenly next to the questers. By Kami was the sky heavy, too. I began to think indestructible. What could hold an infinite amount of weight? Nothing.
"Get the guy who goes here. He needs to be weakened first." I grunted out.
I couldn't really focus on anything. The weight felt like it was trying to fuse my bones together. A glint caught my eye and I saw that Zoë girl about to be stabbed by a muscled man.
"I'm sorry!" I screamed.
I replaced with the girl, who had only a few seconds before the weight was too much and instantly felt a pain in my stomach. Ignoring the shocked face of the man in front of me I rereplaced myself under the sky, then with muscle head. I collapsed right as he found out where he was.
ZOE POV
This was a confusing day for me. Met a strange man, who had strange powers. He used a really weird one and swapped places with my lady Artemis and suddenly my father tries to kill me and her. Still sore from the sky, she loses and right as he goes to stab ME I'm under the sky, which is really heavy. Then the man gets himself stabbed for me, and then swaps with me and I see the look of shock on my father's face, mirrored on my own mind you. Then that same man swaps himself with my dad, who's now ranting curses about being under the sky. The man then passes out.
"Milady, what do we do with him? He is rather odd." I asked Artemis.
"He must come to Olympus with us. He is injured, and held the sky for over an hour. No mortal could withstand that. My father needs to see him."
NARUTO POV
I woke up in a throne room with 12 giant thrones in front of me, and 12 massive people sitting in them. They looked at me with caution, so I did what I do best.
"Anyone get the name of the guy who stabbed me? He may want his knife back." Ahh sarcasm. Mind you, I DID have his knife. And I didn't know his name.
Only a few people laughed too. Artemis I noticed her giggle. A child sitting by a fire laughed. A lady holding a massive box of cereal laughed. I even got a small chuckle out of Zoë, who I noticed behind me.
"Enough!" said a man in an expensive looking suit. His eyes were like my own used to be, bright blue and piercing. "What are you? Who are you?"
"In backwards order, I am Naruto Uzumaki, and I am a sage. Or a ninja. I prefer sage."
The cereal lady lost her well lost expression, and glared at me. "You smell of Pan. Yet you are not demigod. You are mortal, not a drop of godly blood in your veins. You cannot be a sage. Only those close to nature my take in nature."
The rest of the gods looked socked. I'm guessing she usually doesn't say much. I sat cross-legged and began to draw in nature. I have lost the toad contract, but the ability is there. As the energies balance, horns appear on either side of my forehead. Gasps were heard echoing through the hall. I stood defiantly then, and opened my eyes. I know that my rippled, purple eyes are now brilliant silver. A few nature spirits, I'm guessing, immediately bowed. I held out my hand and a small tree began to grow. Thanks to the Rinnegan, I can use wood style. Captain Yamato let me extract all his jutsu just before he died from his wounds. Looking around at the socked faces, I smirked.
"So, what was that? I can feel your emotions, and tell that blonde one in pink that she should really keep that lust in hand."
Everyone looked at me like I was a miracle. Which, seeing as their all gods, is kinda lame. I started to let go of the nature energy, but it seemed reluctant to leave. I gasped and fell to my knees panting.
Cereal lady looked at me in sympathy. "No one has wielded nature energy in over 2000 years, child. It doesn't want to leave the one who can."
I nodded.
"He cannot be killed now. Nature itself would rebel. He is a threat. The most dangerous kind of threat. The one we cannot get rid of." Said the blue eyed man from before.
"Please. I don't want any part of your petty power fetishes. I care not who is charge, as long as they don't endanger the people."
You know, for a strict-looking goddess, Artemis looked to be holding in a grin.
"Never the less, you are not the problem right now. Let's get on with the meeting."
I tuned them out, until a few minutes later.
"WHAT?" someone yelled.
I looked up. Blue eyed guy looked pissed.
"HE saved you? HOW?" the thundered.
Then came a long explanation from Artemis and Zoë. Right as they got to the part of saving lives, I jumped in.
"I did nothing. Artemis is the one who held that Atlas guy off. All I did was hold the sky. Then get stabbed. Then held the sky some more. Then put him under the sky instead. Nothing happened."
Everyone looked at me like I had grown another head.
"Don't lie to them, you did everything!" said Artemis, who was now yelling in my face at eye level.
"I didn't, Artemis. Take credit for what you did!"
"I know what I did. Take your own credit!"
"I did! That's all I did."
She glared at me then went back to her throne, still glaring. Ignoring everyone, I went to Zoë who was looking oddly at Artemis. I handed her a pen, which was the sword I got from Percy.
"Here. Just because jerkules didn't appreciate it, I'm giving this back."
She looked shocked, but nodded. I held out my hand to catch a club that was thrown at me. I looked to see the asshole in question before I threw it back, chakra enhanced. It hit him in the face, and blasted him out of the throne room.
"Point proven." I stated.
"You hit him." She said shocked. I almost laughed. I patted her head, getting a glare.
"That's it. I'm adopting you. You will be my little imouto-chan! Ok?"
She looked at me oddly, so I elaborated. "Little sister."
Oddly enough, both she and Artemis flinched when I said it.
She looked at Artemis questioningly. For a few seconds nothing happened. Then Zoë looked at me and nodded reluctantly. "Sure."
I immediately grabbed her in a hug and swung her in a circle. "I got an imouto! I got an imouto!"
Ignoring the face vaults of many there, I put her down. She was glaring at me. I smiled my foxy grin and put my arm over her shoulder.
"Like any great big brother, I have a gift for my imouto. Behold!" I stated grandly, pulsing chakra into a seal on my wrist. Out in the usual puff of smoke came a staff with a full circle at the top, three rings on either side. Still ignoring all the strange looks I was getting, I grabbed in both of my hands.
"I can teach you to use it later. But here." Right as I said that, I touched the end with the circle to her forehead. She gasped and writhed in pain. When she was calm I put away the staff back into the seal.
"What did thou do to me?" she asked in wonder. "Everything feels sharper, and I can see more clearly. I can even sense the others. What is this?"
"I burned new chakra coils into your system, which is why it hurt. I'm sorry for that. But I can teach you to wield multiple elements and completely disappear. You can use it to make your arrows pierce solid steel. And even walk on water."
As I was listing what she could do now she got a starry eyed look. I looked at Artemis, who looked at me approvingly.
"What about my son?" asked a man with sea green eyes.
"What about him?"
"Why do you not give him this power?"
"Cause he's not a girl. Too many egotistical men have used his power to start wars. The last one, before I took his power away, nearly destroyed the world I came from. I will only gift girls with this power. And no, not everyone." I finished seeing the hungry look of Thalia and Annabeth.
"Then why bother?" he asked moodily.
"Because women are better than men. Simple as that." I said smugly, not noticing that same smug smirk on every woman there.
"BOY! I am Zeus, king of the gods! I demand you give that power to who I say!" yelled blue eyes. I know his name now.
"No."
He yelled and threw lightning at me. Come on now, who does that? I don't get my way plenty of times, and I've never blasted anyone for it. Well other than that one time someone made me spill my ramen. I never did find him again.
I simply used Preta path and absorbed the energy it was made of, doing me no harm. I glared at Zeus and unleashed my full presence. Unlike killing intent, this one simply shows the power one possesses and not the urge to kill. He slipped off his throne and knelt on the floor. I used gravity manipulation to float up in the air about 8 feet. My voice thundered out of the hall and an angry nine-tailed fox appeared behind me. The illusion was massive, and scared every male there, as they were the only ones to see it.
"I CARE NOT WHO YOU ARE, WORM. I HAVE DEFEATED A GODDESS AND A PRIMORDIAL ENTITY FAR BEYOND YOUR PATHETIC GRASPS AT POWER. YOU ARE BUT AN INSECT TO THEM AND TO ME!" I put my hand on his head, causing him to freeze. "WITH MY POWER, I CAN RIP YOUR PATHETIC SOUL OUT OF YOUR IMMORTAL BODY. NEVER AGAIN WOULD YOU DO ANYTHING, THE BODY UNABLE TO DIE, YET WITHOUT A SOUL TO MOVE. I CAN CRUSH YOUR SOUL IN MY HAND AND FORCE YOU INTO OBLIVION. DO NOT TEST MY PATIENCE LIKE THIS AGAIN, LIGHTNING GOD, OR IT WILL BE THE LAST THING YOU DO."
I went back to my original spot, Zeus getting into his throne. He was paler than a ghost, as were the other males. The females looked vindicated for some reason.
"I will give power to those who deserve it. You cannot force me to do anything." I said coldly.
The rest of the meeting went by without hassle, with me explaining to Zoë what chakra could do, as well as what it was. After the meeting was over, Thalia requested to join Artemis and her hunters, and she accepted. She then came to me.
"Should you find yourself in need, I, Artemis, will always welcome you in the hunt."
I smiled and nodded. Then asked, "Mind getting me outta here too? I wanna explain to Zoë how to use her gift."
"Why did you want her as a sister anyway?"
"I've never had a family. I was orphaned at birth, and used to contain a great evil. This evil had destroyed half my village, and everyone saw me as this evil. I was never adopted. I was thrown out into the streets when I was 3 and lived in the forest until I was 10. I was shunned everywhere I went, until I proved to everyone who I was. The evil is gone now, and has been for a while, but he was never evil. He was controlled. Anyway, that's not important. I've always wanted a family, and it is the only dream I have left."
I looked over to see tears in her eyes. I looked deep into those silver eyes and sighed. "Let me show you my life." I offered.
She nodded, and I placed my index and middle fingers on her forehead. She immediately gasped. I showed her everything. Even my final betrayal from the world. When her vision cleared, she immediately hugged me and cried on my shoulder, Zoë looking at me in sympathy. Artemis stayed like that for many minutes. When she let me go, her eyes were puffy and red. She looked kinda cute like that.
"How did you survive?" she asked, shocking the ones watching us.
"A girl who showed me love. She was killed in the end, just to hurt me. I had planned on asking her to marry me you know. She saved me from that darkness. She was my light in the world. That was the reason I tried to seal myself away. It hurt too much." She nodded, having seen that in my memories.
She pulled me along to Zoë who was close by. She grabbed her by the shoulder and teleported us away. I found myself in the oddest place. I was up against the wall, pinned there by the dozen or so silver arrows attached to me. I laughed.
"Girls. Stop this at once." Said Artemis. "He is the only reason I or Zoë am still here. He is also the reason we have a new hunter." She finished, pointing to Thalia.
"Where are we anyway?" I asked.
"We are in my own cabin at camp half-blood." Said Artemis.
"Ah. The one no guy ever gets in. I should get out. Help me get these arrows out imouto." I said to Zoë who simply shook her head in embarrassment. She did start getting the arrows out though.
"What do you mean get out. I brought you in here for a reason!" she said.
"Why?"
"You'll be staying in my cabin when you are here at camp." She said proudly, much to the dismay of her hunters.
"Ah. Yeah I could use the roof. That way the girls get privacy." I said shocking the girls.
"NO! I said IN my cabin, not ON my cabin."
"I'd rather the roof. I can see the stars and the moon. I like sleeping under the moon, Artemis."
A blush appeared on her cheeks. "R-really? Why"
"I like the sense of peace. It makes me feel closer to nature as well." I said with a smile and a far off look.
I felt a tug on the trench coat I was wearing. Zoe pulled me down and whispered in my ear. "Artemis is also the moon goddess. She drives the chariot many believe is the moon across the sky."
As usual to my luck, everyone heard and immediately giggled at my reaction. Which was a blush and sputtering like an idiot.
"But, why didn't anyone tell me, or at least stop my mouth before I went on and on about how great the moon was! Imouto you have betrayed me!" I said while fake sobbing. Poor girl looked even more embarrassed than before. Her face was so red; it reminded me of the academy days with Hinata.
"What does imouto even mean anyway?" asked a rather big girl I remember is named phoebe.
"Little sister." I said immediately happy once more. Curiously enough, all of the girls apart from Thalia flinched. "Okay, what's with the flinch?"
"Apollo." Said one.
"Oh. Never mind. He isn't worth wasting my time to listen about." I said to the shock and amusement of the girls. "I guess I'm going set up my bed on the roof then."
"GET BACK HERE NARUTO!" I heard Artemis yell. I laughed and unsealed a bed and set up a place on the roof. Looking at the sunset, I laughed more.
A few hours later, I saw the moon. It was even more beautiful than my world's. Smiling contently, I soon fell asleep.
A.N. that's all folks. If I get positive reviews I'll continue onwards. So review if you like it so far. Sorry if it's fast-paced.