Hey everyone! New chap here so tell me how you like it.
And to the reviews that ask if he gains the powers of a/the gods he will in a sense but the power ups will come steadily. So he won't be god-like from the start, but he will build up to it.
And the markings I referred to in the last chapter were the seal tags that Mito Uzumaki put in her hair.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the Percy Jackson series.
Chapter 2: Family Life
Naruto groggily opened his eyes, and didn't know where he was, or how he was alive. The last thing he could remember was passing out on a hill from a mix of exhaustion, and starvation, then the next he wakes up here, and he was confused as hell. 'Were am I? How'd I get here?'
Looking around he noticed that he was in a very nice room, he was on the bed that was in the center, a chair was sitting next the bed, like someone had been watching him, there was a small dresser over in the corner, and a door leading to somewhere else.
Now he was starting to get anxious, he had never been in a situation like this before, the only times he was ever in a room this good was his many visits to the hospital. And even then he didn't have any good experiences, as the doctors refused to heal him right.
Deciding to get out of here while he could he swung the blankets off him, and got out of the bed. The only problem was that when he tried to stand he fell flat on his back, and the fall caused a loud boom sound that he was sure was heard in the next room and probably alerting who ever had found him.
His suspicions were proven correct when a woman with blue hair that had a paper rose in it came into the room with a concerned look on her face. That look immediately changed to that of surprise, and she smiled slightly at him "oh good, you're up. I had begun to worry." She said approaching him, only to stop when he tried to back away with a look of fear on his face.
"P-please don't come near me." He said still trying to back away using his elbows, and feet.
All she could do was look at him worried before she raised her hands to show that she wasn't going to hurt him, and even then he still looked scared, "I'm not going to hurt you, my husband and I were the ones who found you, and brought you here." She said making him somewhat less anxious, but he still looked a little scared, "h-how do I know I can trust you?"
Konan looked thoughtful for a while before she let out a sigh and shrugged, "I guess you can't. But you have my word, neither I nor my husband will hurt you." She said, causing him to finally nod and relax. Seeing he had accepted her answer she slowly approached him noticing he stiffened ever so slightly. Bending down she gently picked him up and set him back on the bed.
As she stood up and was about to sit in the chair next to the bed his stomach let out a monstrous growl demanding food. She giggled when she saw him turn his head away in embarrassment, "I can see that you're hungry, I'll go and whip something up for you so please, just stay in bed and rest." She said and walked out of the room.
When she left Naruto had started to think on what was happening. Was she hired to kill him or had she been truthful in what she said? Thinking to when she had came in and he had started to back away in fear he had saw a hurt look cross he face, and that her eyes held no ill will towards him, just the desire to help.
Sighing he decided that he would see how this played out and then go from there. It was then that he smelt a wonderful aurora coming from the next room, and his stomach gave another growl, causing him to sigh and think 'man that smells good!' it took another ten minutes for the blue haired person to come back with a tray loaded with food of all kind, there was rice, fish, some bread, a cup of milk and…. Ramen! At the sight of his favorite food he was literally drooling.
Seeing Naruto's mouth open and a river of saliva coming from it made Konan giggle as she set the food in front of the child that she and Yahiko rescued. Once the food was set in front of him Naruto picked up the ramen she had prepared gave it a attentive taste, which caused his eyes to widen, making konan look at him in worry before he started inhaling it at a speed that she thought wasn't possible.
As soon as he was done with the ramen he picked up the fish and ate that at high speeds as well and her eyes widened at seeing that he was still eating as fast as he was. He moved on to the rice when he finished the fish and started to slow a bit on how he ate, but he still kept up a fast pace. Seeing how he was literally inhaling the food she had prepared, Konan was looking like a fish out of water, 'dear Kami! Either he hasn't eaten in days (which he hadn't), or is my cooking that good?' she thought as she gaped at him.
Mean while as Naruto finished off the rice and picked up the bread he was thinking 'oh my Kami! Her cooking is the best I've ever had! Even better then Ichiraku's!'
When he had finished the bread he quickly downed the glass of milk and patted his stomach contently, satisfied now that it was full.
When he looked up he saw that his hostess was gaping at him in surprise. When she realized he was looking at her, Konan gave a small smile, "were you that hungry or was my cooking that good?" she asked jokingly.
"Both," he said back with a small grin of his own. "Sorry for not introducing myself, but I'm Naruto Uzumaki." He said, and then his expression turned serious "however I must ask who are you? And why are you helping me?"
Her expression did not change but you could tell by her eyes she was wondering just what this kid could have gone through to be this mature and to warrant such questions.
"My name is Konan Hariken, and my husband's name is Yahiko, he's out getting supplies at the moment, but as to why we're helping you, is that judging by the condition you were in when we found you, we have an idea of what you've gone through in your life." She said causing him to look at her skeptically.
"No, you don't." he said in a deathly quiet voice. His lifeless tone sent shivers up Konan's spine. "Were you ever, beaten on a daily bases?" he asked in the same quiet voice, and she shook her head in the negative. "Were you ever glared at and not know what you've done to warrant such a stare?" again a shake of the head, "were you ever starved only eating when you could find something in the garbage, when you got the nerve up to steal it, or when someone you see as a grandfather got the time to check on you?" he asked again this time causing her to nod.
Her nod made him stop and stare at her in surprise, "how is it you know what it is like to go hungry?"
Konan looked off in the distance before she replied, "Yahiko, a good friend of ours, and myself were orphans of war" she said, drawing another look of surprise from Naruto, "Yahiko's and my own parents were killed in the second shinobi war. I was all alone for awhile, barely being able to find food to survive another day." She said with a grim look before it changed into a bright smile. "But then I met Yahiko, and a good friend named Nagato, we looked after each other until we found someone to train us in the ninja arts for a bit." Konan paused here when Naruto perked up at the ninja bit and she smirked to herself, 'looks like little Naruto wants to be a ninja.'
But she continued telling her story, "our sensei trained us to the best he could, until we were strong enough to look after ourselves, it was still wartime and we began looking for ways to stop it and created a group called Akatsuki to find ways to do so." Here her expression turned to somber, "unfortunately." She continued in a solemn voice, "during one of the battles Nagato, was poisoned. He would live for a good deal of time after the war but it came at a cost. While he would live he would also become weaker in time. He died just over two years ago."
At seeing her now tearing expression Naruto slowly and shakily leaned up enough to reach out and embrace her in a hug, "I'm sorry that I made you remember that." he said softly, her response was to wrap her arms around him "it's okay Naruto-Chan, it's good to remember Nagato even if it hurts." Konan said her voice soft as well.
"But there was something that Yahiko-kun and I wanted to ask you." She said making him lean back enough to look at her with a questioning look.
She gulped in nervousness before she asked in an equally nervous voice, "would it be alright if Yahiko-kun and I adopted you?"
At her question Naruto's mind went into a haze and a voice was going 'warning computer is overloaded, shutting down…rebooting…analyzing recent information… information analyzed…. She wants to adopt you…reacting accordingly' It said, and immediately Naruto burst into tears and buried his head into her shirt muttering, "thank you!" repeatedly
Konan was surprised at his reaction and just held him tight, smiling softly as she did so.
It took a good hour for him to calm down, and when he did so she asked "is that a yes?"
Naruto nodded wiping some tears away; when he looked up he had a mega-watt smile on his face.
"Thank you!" he said again, "Kaa-san" he finished testing out the word, making Konan smile with tears of joy in her eyes and she hugged him again.
They were interrupted when they heard a door in the next room open and shut, and a male voice called out "Konan-Chan, I'm back." When she heard that Konan yelled back in an extremely happy voice, "I'm in here Yahiko-kun, and I have great news." An instant later and said man was standing in the open doorway observing the scene before him with a smile on his face "I take it you asked him?" he asked hoping for the best.
Seeing his wife nod Yahiko's smile quickly mirrored that of Naruto's, "that's great." He said wrapping them both in a hug. One that Naruto found a little awkward due to the fact that he didn't know this man, but figured that this was his new 'Tou-san'.
Feeling Naruto go stiff Yahiko released them from the hug and grinned sheepishly at him, "sorry little one but I'm Konan's husband Yahiko Hariken. And judging from the scene and that your both happy you agreed to be adopted." He said, and Naruto nodded both in understanding and happiness, with a small grin of his own as he sat in his new mothers lap.
"Yahiko-kun," Konan said drawing both of the boys' attention, "I would like you to officially meet our son, Naruto Uzumaki-Hariken."
'Three years later'
It had taken Naruto awhile to get used to family life, but once he had he embraced it with a bright exuberance.
Every morning he would wake up, shower, and help Konan in the kitchen making breakfast. Afterwards he would help her clean up, and then they would move on to shinobi training.
Now, that was something that had taken some time to get ready for, because his body was so weak it had taken three months for it to get to the level that it could handle a minimum work out. But thankfully they didn't start him on the exercises right away, what they had done was help him start to calm his mind to access his chakra.
What that was, was basically meditating and strangely he took to it like a fish to water. He had managed to access his chakra after an hour of meditating. And what a show that was, as soon as he tapped into it there was a shock wave sent out, if they hadn't focused their own chakra to their feet to stay attached to the ground Yahiko and Konan would have been sent flying away, and even then they were knocked back a few feet. When they looked up they saw that Naruto was literally covered in swirling chakra, but what really surprised them was that the chakra was outlined in red! They took that as a sign to tell him of his jinchuriki status, now that he could use his chakra and wanted to make sure that he didn't accidentally use kyuubi's.
When they had gone to tell gone to tell him, all he did was look at them weirdly and ask what a jinchuriki was. Once informed of what a jinchuriki was, how one was made, and how most lived, he had put the pieces together and hung his head low and asked why they didn't hate him.
Konan replied while taking him into her arms that they didn't see him as the beast, and only as the jailer, and Yahiko had agreed.
After getting over the shock of what he held, Naruto had asked them to up his training, when asked why he wanted to he said that he wanted to become as strong as he could to help them in the civil war that Hanzo the salamander had caused due to his ruling.
And from that day on training had been the second closest thing to hell that Naruto had experienced, the first being his life before he met his adopted parents. He had learned several chakra control exercises, and now had a fit body that someone twice his age would still be working hard to get, the replacement technique, the transformation, and one extremely helpful jutsu, the shadow clone. When they had learned that he had more chakra then both of them combined, Konan and Yahiko, had decided to teach him this jutsu to speed up his training.
The key to this jutsu was that whenever he made a clone and sent it to do something while he did something else, when it dispelled, the original would gain the knowledge of what the clone had been doing. Though the downside was that it couldn't transfer muscular memory, or improvement.
Another thing that they found out was that Naruto was a kinesthetic learner. Meaning that he learned by doing the task. You could explain the jutsu/exercise and he would get the basic of what had to be done but he actually had to do the task to fully understand it. They had to do most of the jutsu work this way.
Here we find Naruto and his adopted parents in the middle of the training field that they often use, and Naruto was wondering what they were doing, as they had told him to put a hold on the shadow clone training for a moment.
But little did he know that Yahiko had brought him here for some special training. It was time they found out his element so that he could start learning more powerful jutsu.
"So Kaa-san, Tou-san what are we doing today?" Naruto asked curiously, making Yahiko smile at his son's excitement to learn, and decided to humor him.
"Well Naru-Chan," Naruto puffed his checks at the nickname causing Konan to giggle "we've decided that its time that we learn what your elemental affinity is." He said causing Naruto's expression to morph in one of pure joy, "really Tou-san? I'm finally going to find out what my affinity is?" he asked in excitement. He had been looking forward to this since the day he learned what elemental chakra was, which was almost two years now. His expression made Yahiko nod in amusement and Konan to giggle again as they remembered the point in their own training where they and Nagato found out their elements.
"Yep and here's the means to do so." Yahiko said as he produced two slips of chakra paper from his hip pouch and handing one to Naruto.
Naruto just stared blankly at what he assumed was just a normal piece of paper, and he made his thoughts known. "Um, Tou-san? How is a piece of paper going to help find my affinity?" he asked with a questioning look.
Yahiko sighed with a sweat drop as he remembered that he; Konan and Nagato had the same reaction to when Jiraiya showed them how it was done.
"This Naruto is called chakra paper." He said drawing a confused look from his son.
Konan seeing her son's confusion started to explain. "Chakra paper," she began drawing Naruto's attention to her, "is made from special trees that feed on chakra; and due to that it has a different reaction to the nature of an individual. For example, if someone has fire it will ignite and turn to ash, wind it will split in two, lightning it'll wrinkle, earth will make it turn to dirt and crumble away and finally water." She paused here so Yahiko could add chakra to the paper in his hand; the result was the paper becoming soggy.
"Will cause the paper to become either damp or soggy depending on how strong your affinity is." Yahiko finished.
All Naruto did was stair in awe at the remains of the paper. Now he couldn't wait to try it out for himself. Konan and Yahiko merely smiled at their son's reaction as they had similar ones when Jiraiya showed them.
After a minute Naruto snapped out of his awed state and stared at his parents with a confused look.
"What's wrong Naru-Chan?" Konan asked seeing his look; he hesitated a bit before asking, "has anyone ever had all five elements?"
His question threw them for a loop as they had been expecting something else, but it did bring someone from the past up in their minds 'Nagato' they thought in remembrance.
Snapping out of their remembering they saw Naruto looking at them with an expectant look "Actually there was someone who had all five, but he had a bloodline to do so." Yahiko said, causing Naruto to nod, before he looked down at his paper and concentrated chakra into it.
What happened surprised them a bit, when he had sent chakra to it the chakra paper had split in two and one side wrinkled into a ball, while the other lit up in a bright flare of fire.
"A nature triple affinity for wind, lightning and fire." Yahiko stated with a whistle. "Very impressive."
"Is that rare Tou-san?" Naruto asked.
"Extremely, Naruto." Yahiko answered. "While a triple affinity isn't unheard of, most shinobi only have one. Natural dual affinities are usually found in clans. The Senju, for instance, had affinities for both water and earth, thus leading to the creation of the Shodaime Hokage's Wood Style." He explained. "Natural triple affinities, however, are even rarer than those, holders of those only pop up once in a generation. The elements themselves though, are what amazed me."
"Why is that?" Naruto asked wondering why his particular elements could have amazed his Tou-san.
"Because, Naruto," Yahiko sighed. "Not only do you have wind and lightning, two of the rarest elements i might add, but you also have fire. Which if used right can be extremely destructive. An example of how would be if you used a fire jutsu in conjunction with a wind jutsu then you could possibly make a low C-Rank into a high A-Rank, or if you did the same with water and lightning it could be quiet devastating." Yahiko explained as Konan nodded in agreement.
His explanation made Naruto's eyes go wide in surprise at how destructive his elements could be.
"But," Konan said drawing his attention again. "Now that you actually knew your elements you need to learn how to actually use and manipulate them, which normally would take years, but due to your vast reserves and being able to use a vast amount of shadow clones you can take it down to a matter of months, if not weeks." She said making Naruto nod.
"Now, it's time to get to work." Yahiko dawning a grin that promised pain, which was mirrored by Konan; their usual 'training is going to be torture' grin.
Naruto gulped in fear.
It was several hours later that Naruto stumbled into his room, both physically and mentally exhausted from his training. After learning about how to manipulate his elements, (which was for wind leaf cutting, lightning leaf wrinkling, and fire leaf burning) he had made eighty shadow clones, sixty of them working on the elemental manipulation, twenty for each, and twenty for chakra control exercises. While they went off to do those he had spared with his parents. Needless to say he was put through the ringer…again.
He groaned in pain as he dropped into bed thinking for the umpteenth time, 'what have I gotten myself into?'
All he could say was thank Kami for the shadow clone. As if it wasn't for them he wouldn't have the time to work on everything he had learned thus far, and would probably be in even more pain then he was now.
As he drifted off to sleep he had no idea on who he would be meeting tonight.
Okay now that's the chapter everyone, sorry if it was a little late, I had meant to get this out on Tuesday but something's came up, and then it was storming and the power went out and I lost a good deal of what I had wrote.
But I hope you all liked it, I will be updating my back to the beginning story next so if you haven't read that then please check it out and tell me what you think.
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