He With The Ability to Help by All Means
A Naruto and Percy Jackson Crossover
"Oh fuck..."
Naruto was busy fighting the Impure Summon of Uchiha Madara when that thought, coming from the Great Demon sealed inside of him, passed through his mind. And then a very strange sensation began to crawl across his body getting stronger and stronger.
"NO!" Madar yelled.
Then the world warped into a swirl, and became nothing.
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Voices, Naruto heard voices. He tried to speak but there was an immense pressure every time he opened his mouth.
The first voice was feminine, ancient, and powerful. The sound burned Naruto's person and blinded him as if he had that sound-sight cross over thing.
'Synesthesia' Kurama's voice provided, faint. Kurama's voice sounded even older than the woman's voice, gutteral, animalistic. Not like what Kurama had sounded like when inside the seal.
Another voice spoke. A simple sylable, and yet this third voice sounded deeper than the roots of mountains and almost as old as Kurama's.
"No."
The female voice 'humph'd and it burned.
Kurama spoke to the female voice, as haughty and as arrogant as Naruto remembered. It was comforting. The familarity.
The female voice attempted to argue and it burned and Naruto tried to cover his eyes with his hands, but Kurama overrode the voice loud and understandable.
"I will fight you every step of the way! Grant me this wish, or you will suffer! I cannot devour you as I have so many, but neither can you kill me!"
"Fine."
The black world lit up and Naruto was sure he would never see again, and he knew no more.
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When Naruto forced his eyes open, the world he saw was naught but swirling clouds, heavy and full of rain. Lightning occasionally danced across them.
"Ah, good," a voice sounded from behind Naruto, who whirled to meet the speaker, "I caught you in time."
The man before him looked like a red-headed version of his father, Namikaze Minato, dressed up like a samurai. The armor the man wore was blue and white and the Gunbari hanging between the seated man's legs bore the Uzumaki swirl.
"Wh-" Naruto cleared his throat, "Who are you?"
The man stared on for a second before taking a swig of his sake bottle.
"I am many things, some more important than others. But to you, I am your father and your ancestor before all things."
"But- but!" Naruto tried to word his question.
"I am Susanoo. Patron deity of the Uzumaki," the now revealed god took another swig of his sake, "We are not permitted anymore to intefere directly with mortals. I knew of Uzushio being crushed before hand and so placed myself in a position that your mother would find me, and if things went correctly, fall in love with me, or more precisely, my mortal visage. So, I am your father, and your ancestor."
Naruto gaped at the man.
"The repeated use of the eyes made in a bout of Tsukiyomi's jealousy, specifically the Kamui technique, shredded the dimensional barriers around your battle. You were then sucked into limbo, being the most powerful entity there, you and Kurama's combined might broke open a rift. Amaterasu wished to have you sent to the Afterlife, but Shinigami-dono said 'no.'"
Susanoo grinned lopsidedly. The thought of someone saying 'no' to his sister pleased him immensely.
"Kurama then asked that you be spared, simply cast out, like I was. But since you were never of the Heavenly Plane, you couldn't remain on the Impure Plane. So she sent you sideways, and I caught you."
The gears were turning fast in Naruto's head. It made snese but it didn't! So Naruto just asked a question at the fore-front of his mind.
"What would have happened to me if you hadn't caught me?"
The god shrugged.
"I don't know. You could've ended up in one of many, many worlds or drifted for eternity, alive but not living. But the one I'm sending you to... Well, the Gods that rule there owe me. A lot."
"Who?"
"The Greco-Roman Gods. They like to hide the Greek side from the Roman side and vice-versa, so don't mention it to any of the younglings."
Naruto looked at the god, with a confused expression. Finally Naruto shrugged.
"So, I am the son of Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and his descedant. I was thrown from my world because me and Kurama together is stupid powerful and it tore open a dimensional rift. Amaterasu-no-Mikoto sent me from that world when she couldn't have me killed, and then my father, saved me? Am I right so far?"
Susanoo nodded.
"Since you're a god, why didn't you just banish Kurama when he attack Konoha?"
Susanoo grimaced.
"There are laws, divine ones. When I was Minato, I didn't fully realize I was a god, not until I died. So I couldn't just banish him. To put it better, perhaps: Minato is me, but I am not Minato. He is but a fraction of a part of what makes me up."
Naruto looked at Susanoo blank faced.
"You don't really care about me do you? You just-"
"No!" The clouds around Naruto and Susanoo crackled full of power and thunder, the wind picked up and began to tug on Naruto's clothes, and it began to rain lightly, "You are my son and I love you! I have loved all my children! But you are the one I am most proud of! You walk the Spiral Path! I would see you ascend were it not for the damnable laws!"
Susanoo was cut off when Naruto lunged forward and hugged the divine being. Susanoo returned it with just as much force. Holding his son tight, Susanoo picked up with the important information he had to pass on to Naruto.
"I will give you a mortal copy of the Totsuka no Tsurugi and the knowledge with which to use it, and the knowledge of the language they speak where I am sending you, but I can do no more directly. The rest is up to you, walk on the Spiral Path, my beloved son."
Lightning sparked and thunder cracked and Naruto felt the sudden loss of his father, before the world warped again.
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Percy had an idea, and it worked except now it looked like the Minotaur wouldn't run into the tree.
CRACK-THWOOM!
A blinding bolt of lightning struck the ground, and the concussive force drove the Minotaur back on course for the tree. Percy, though partially blinded, managed to drive the pen-sword into the Minotaur causing a great bellow. With a crack, the Minotaur boke off his own horn to face the young demi-god and charge again.
Percy frantically dodged, eventually ending up without a sword and his back to the same tree that had the horn still embedded in it.
'Why not? I'm dead if I don't even try.'
With that Percy ripped the horn from the tree, dodged another charged and leapt on to the giant half-man, half-bull's back and drove the broken horn down as hard as he could into the monster.
Percy fell to the ground with a thud as the monster roared and began to turn into dust and mist.
"Percy!" Grover yelled as he rushed over.
"Oh, hey, Grover, I think there's a person there," and Percy's eyes rolled back into his head and he slumped to the ground.
Not one to cuss often, Grover let out a soft 'shit,' when he turned around and noticed there was indeed another person there, and he, too, was out cold.
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Naruto slowly woke up, trying to blink the fatigue out of his eyes. He was pretty sure he had never been this tired.
'Is this what it feels like to be normal? Normal sucks.'
He groaned and tried to sit up.
"Whoa there, lay back down," a girl's voice called out before hands gently pushed him back down, "You came from one hell of a fight, judging from the wounds you had. Here, drink this."
How was he supposed to drink- oh, she was lifting his head and cup ok.
"Tastes good," he croaked out. 'Yup, being normal blows.'
"Its ambrosia, it'll help you heal faster."
Naruto blinked a few times and the person shaped blob slowly became a person.
"I'm Naruto of the Uzumaki Clan," he managed after clearing his throat.
"Clarisse La Rue," the girl introduced herself with a small frown, "Let me go get one of the regular helpers, I'm only here 'cause I got punished."
"Mmmk," Naurto mumbled as he slowly fell back asleep.
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On Mount Olympus the Gods were arguing, not an unusual occurance, but the subject was.
"He is a foreigner! How can we accept him?!"
"He is still but a boy, what harm can he do? Let him stay."
"I think you should all go with letting him stay," Susanoo's voice rang out, "He is my son afterall, and most of you owe me favours, or are easily cowed."
Susanoo's favourite past time: Annoying and Bullying Other Gods for Fun: Greek Version.
Zeus teeth ground together so loud, Posideon thought about laughing. Posideon and Susanoo got along decently. Both being gods of the sea and sea storms, and both loving to dick with other gods. But laughing would probably aggravate the whole Master Bolt situation.
"Fine," Zeus spat, "He can stay, but he will be watched, and you cannot influence anything here!"
Susanoo pouted.
"But I have awesome items of POWER that he has to go on quests for! Can I at least do that? Pretty flayed pony in your bed please?"
"How abou-" Zeus began.
"I could put that pony in Hera's bed and then she can blame you for not giving me such a simple thing."
Hera glared at her husband.
"Fine. Now leave!"
Susanoo gave a two-fingered salute and dissapeared in a crack of thunder.
"I hate him. How come he gets to do that and I don't?"
Posideon couldn't let this one go. Time to use one of Zeus favourite comebacks against him.
"Mother Rhea liked him best."
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Clarisse wasn't happy for a few reasons. Her plan to initiate the shorter new kid had backfired and landed her on infirmary duty. The WORST punishment for any of the Aries cabin. Second, the taller new kid was good looking, and that was doing not fun things to her stomach. Thirdly, she had been assigned to help the guy get around.
Lastly, he introduced himself in such a weird way. Uzumaki Clan, what was that?
Clarisse harumph'ed as she entered the Medical Pavillion. She was gobsmacked to find him standing, walking, and looking around for something.
"C'mon it should be here. Why in the hell wouldn't it?"
"What should be here?"
Naruto would swear until his dying day that the shriek he let out was as manly as they come. Clarisse would forever enjoy ribbing Naruto about the girliest sound she had ever heard a boy produce.
He took a deep breath and calmed himself.
"My Sake Bottle. Its a little ceramic bottle about this big," Naruto held his hands apart at the approximate size.
"Oh, Mr. D confiscated it, saying if he wasn't allowed to have alchohol, nobody was."
Naruto looked like he had blown a fuse.
"It was empty! And its the only momento I have from my father! Where is this 'Mr. D?!'"
Clarisse normally would have said something mean and degrading, but seeing as her father, Aries, was important to her and if they had confiscated her spear. Well, when she got that spear back it would be spearing.
"Well, I geuss since you're well enough to be up and looking for it, you're well enough to meet Mr. D and go on the grand tour."
Naruto nodded and began to stride to the door with Purpose! But a loud 'eep' turned him around.
"YOU CAN'T GO AROUND WEARING A HOSPITAL GOWN! ITS NOT DECENT!"
He looked down and saw that he was, indeed, wearing a hospital gown and had given Clarisse a free show. He shrugged.
"Where are my clothes? Or my equipment? I have more clothes in my scrolls, if the ones I were wearing were destroyed."
Ten minutes later, Clarisse was waiting outside the Medical Pavillion red-faced. Upon receiving his clothes and scrolls, Naruto just divested himself of his gown and given Clarisse another free show. She slapped him and left him to his devices. She was going to spear him to the ground first chance she got!
"Alirght, let's go get my momento," Naruto said as he stepped out side tightening his forehead protector. He was wearing a black jumpsuit with orange stripes and had a horribly clashing red coat with black flames over the jumpsuit.
"Gonna have to change this cloak methinks," he mumbled to himself.
It was a quick walk to the Big House. They stepped inside and Clarisse spotted Chiron.
"Sweet shivering Kami! A horse-man!"
"I am a centaur, young man. Not a horse-man,"Chiron chided.
"And this part of you is?" Naruto asked as if he was talking to a small child, pointing to Chiron's hindquarters.
"Horse."
"And this part is?"
"Man," Chiron wondered where this was going.
"Horse-man," Naruto deadpanned.
"Centaur," Chiron deadpanned back.
"Is that what you call a horse-man?"
"Yes."
"Ok, then. Now, where is my bottle?"
Chiron looked to Clarisse for clarification.
"He says that the bottle of Sake Mr. D conficated was a memento from his father, and it was empty.
"Ah, yes, and I presume he wants the scroll that came out of it?" Chiron said as he walked over to a cabinet and drew forth a rather large Sake bottle and scroll.
"Yes, please," Naruto ground out. Presuming was like assuming. It really was.
Upon receiving the bottle, Naruto tied it to his left hip belt loop. Without preamble, he then opened the scroll.
Kiddo,
These are the Greek demi-gods, at their Camp Half-Blood. Don't really know why these guys do this to their kids, but whatever. I'll claim you soon, so until then cope and don't tell anyone. But when I do claim you, ask to build a shrine to me out of the way, so you can have your own pad. If not, Posideon might let you crash at his place.
The bottle is the sheath to the sword. Sometimes you just gotta take a pull, know what I mean?
As to Chakra. You may not have noticed, or just attributed it to not having Kurama, but you can't externally express it as anything other than Elemental Chakra, but probably not techniques. You might be able to stick to walls and walk on water, but I'm not sure. I'm not all-knowing. I know you know how to do Wind, brush up on Water and Lightning, I have scrolls sealed into the bottom of this, transcribed from the very first ones on those manipulation. So it's pretty basic, but thats what you need.
Branch out as best you can, make some friends, and go on some quests to get some sweet items of POWER I have left around that world. Greeks love quests.
Walk the Spiral Path, my son.
With much love and pride,
Susanoo-no-Mikoto
P.S. If they give you shit about building a shrine to me, remind them that I am the God of Seas and Storms, and the Ruler of Yomi. That's like Zeus, Posideon, and Hades wrapped up in one.
"Asshole," Naruto grumbled good naturedly. He rolled the scroll up and tucked it away.
"Now that you are done ignoring me, perhaps we can introduce ourselves. I am Chiron, the centaur, and trainer of heroes."
"Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto stuck out his hand. Chiron shook his hand as Naruto frowned thoughtfully.
"Naruto is my given name. Uzumaki is my clan name."
"Indeed?" Chiron leaned on his staff, "Then you should introduce yourself as 'Naruto Uzumaki' while here."
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"And this is Cabin Eleven, where all unclaimed half-bloods go, along with all of Hermes' children and children of minor gods."
The cabin was a dull brown and paint was visibly peeling. The cabin just looked like it was about to fall apart.
"Looks like shit."
"Hey, now," a new voice rang out, "That's no way to talk about your new home. I'm Luke."
The man-boy was tall and lanky, with light hair and eyes. If Naruto hadn't spent years training under a spymaster, he would've like this guy. But there was something off. SPY SPY SPY SPY SPY. Naruto shook his head to clear the alarms ringing in his head and just decided to play along for now.
"Naruto."
The two males shook hands before Luke turned to Clarisse.
"I never thought I'd see you giving a new camper the tour, Clarisse. I thought the children of Aries too good for such a lowly task."
Clarisse snorted.
"Chiron doesn't. And Naruto was my charge until I brought him here. Goodbye!"
With that, Clarisse turned on her heel and began to walk away.
"Hey! Don't be a stranger, Clarisse La Rue!" Naruto called after her.
"I won't be, Naruto of the Uzumaki Clan," she muttered without looking back. She did, however, wave over her shoulder.
Luke gaped at Naruto for a second.
"How in the-. She's the favourite daughter of Aries here at camp! I wouldn't get on her bad side. Besides wait 'til you get a peek at Aphrodite's daughters, you'll forget all about her!"
Naruto cocked his head and an eyebrow at the older boy.
"That," he said pointing at Clarisse's retreating form, "Is a whole lot of fightin' woman. I'd rather have that than some meek high priestess girl. And I should know. I've had High Priestess before. And princess."
Naruto looked thoughtful fopr a second before he cried to the heavens with a big thumbs up.
"Sensei, I have learned your lessons of life well!"
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"AHA! That's my boy! Fightin' women indeed!" Jiraiya cackled, high-fiving Kushina, who looked just as pleased.
"At least he's not openly perverted," she mumbled to herself while a smile threatened to split her face.
"GRANDBABIES!" came Tsunade's drunken slur. She was soon joined by Kushina in drunken rambling about 'Naru-grandbabies,' of which one currently existed.
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"Besides, who is this Aries guy, and Hermes, and the rest of them?" Naruto made a sweeping gesture around the cabins.
Luke looked at the shorter blonde.
"You don't know?"
Naruto just shook his head.
Luke left out none of the dirty embarrassing details. These Gods were really quite petty.
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Capture the Flag.
At first Naruto was confused, then Annabeth, Percy's (the guy he had inadvertantly helped when appearing on this world) friend, explained it was like war games. But no killing and maiming was frowned upon.
A few minutes later and Naruto just shed all of the armor and weapons given to him.
"Hey, you're gonna need that," Luke tried to point out.
"It's heavy, hot, and it gets in the way. Besides, I got something way cooler."
Naruto popped his Sake Bottle open and placed his right hand over it like he was going to pull a sword from it. Then he did pull a sword from it. The Totsuka-no-Tsurugi.
"What is that?" Luke asked.
"The Ten-Span Sword. My father's memento. And it really doesn't work with that armor anyways."
Luke just nodded.
"Well, I hope you know how to use it."
Images flooded Naruto's mind, and he spaced out for a minute.
"Yeah," he answered Luke absent-mindedly.
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These Aries boys were pretty good. When Naruto had come across them he just got their attention and said something like 'Your mother is a Babylonian whore and your father likes to go crying to granddaddy when he gets a paper cut.'
With a cry of rage they charged him.
It had taken a few minutes to get into the rhythm of the fight, but slowly Naruto was beginning to eek out on top, he did have the superior range.
"Yanno," Naruto said blocking a swing from the boy to his right before initiating his own attack, "I don't know your mother, so I doubt she's a whore, and a paper cut to a god is like disembowlment to you and me. They were just fightin' words. I would cry to my grandma every time I got disembowled. Well, not cry, because I was usually comatose, but you know what I mean."
"So," the biggest of the Sons of Aries who stabbed at Naruto said, "You just said those things to get into a good fight?"
Naruto grinned lopsidedly as he ducked a chop from his left.
"Who doesn't enjoy a good fight?"
Some of the Sons of Aries snorted.
"Most of this camp, but we would've given ya a good un with out them words."
"Oh, well, Clarisse didn't mention-" Naruto grunted with exertion as he sent a fast slice across someone's thigh, "that when she gave me the tour. And I'd rather not end up on her bad side."
"Oh? Tryin' to get in good with our sister?" the biggest one said before crashing down on Naruto with a big overhand blow, which was followed up by a shield smash.
Naruto deflected the sword and bounded back away from the bash.
"She's a whole lotta fightin' woman. She would've been real popular back home. I'm Naruto," Naruto gave a quick salute.
The big one looked around and saw most of his brothers on the ground nursing wounds. He stood up and saluted briefly.
"I'd say you have a chance, as small as it may be. I'm Mark and he's Sherman."
"Wh-urk!"
Naruto cursed himself as he fell foward into a roll. pivoting on one knee, Naruto summoned up wind and pushed with his open hand. He heard two statisfying fleshy thumps. He stood up and saw most of the Aries boys looking at him tiredly or unconsious. Suddenly one of the clapped twice. The rest of the consious crowd clapped twice as fast as they could.
"What was that for?"
"Two claps for good fights," one groaned out.
"Oh."
Then a horn rang out through the forest, and all the Aries boys groaned.
"Blue team wins!"
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Naruto just walked up when a blue light and a trident appeared above Percy's head.
"Hail Percy Jackson, Son of Posideon, Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses, Hail!"
"Hail!" went up from all the campers, though it was a tad sub-dued.
"Well, that's interesting," Naruto said drawing attention to himself.
"What do those symbols mean?!" some camper called out pointing over Naruto's head.
Naruto looked over his head trying to see the symbols. He could make out a big swirl he identified as the Uzumaki swirl with a sheathed sword laid across it. but below that was a smaller icon. A tanto across a white cloth. Naruto's mouth went dry.
"Hail Naruto Uzumaki, Son of Susanoo-no-Mikoto, the Tempestuous God of Valor, blessed by the," Chiron paused before continuing, "Shinigami, the God of Death."
"Fuck."
"Hail!" came from the campers, but even more sub-dued than finding out that Percy was the son of one of the Big Three.
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"Care to explain?" Chiron asked Naruto as they made their way to the big house.
"Well, I knew Susanoo was my father, but I've been touched by the Shinigami, never thought I had been blessed," Naruto scrunched up his face, "How did you even know what those symbols meant?"
"The knowledge came to me. I suspect Athena whispered it into my mind. I know nothing else about your gods."
"Why, besides that they're not Greek, did everyone act all mopey?"
"The God of the Underworld isn't very well liked. He is also the God of Death, and many of the campers figure you would be the Japanese equivalent of one of his children."
Naruto shook his head.
"Dad is the ruler of Yomi, the World of Darkness. But all the stories I grew up hearing about him make him out to be a pretty good guy. Except when he killed one of my Aunt's handmaidens," Naruto's face scrunched up again, "But I lived in a pretty pro-Amatersu place. My clan is from Uzu no Kuni, the Land of Whirlpools, and in places like that the story might be a little different."
Chiron's pace slowed and then halted.
"Your father is the God of the Underworld?"
Naruto shook his head.
"Technically, yes. He rules Yomi, but he's the God of the Seas and Storms. He's kinda like the Big Three wrapped into one god."
Chiron paled slightly.
"Speaking of, can I build my own shrine-stroke-cabin in a little out of the way spot?"
"We will have to ask Mr. D when he gets back from the meeting on Olympus, perhaps Posideon, being another Sea God, will consent to you sharing space with his son, at least while he's away on his quest."
"Quest? Quest? Can I go on a quest?"
Naruto bounced around Chiron excitedly. But Chiron just shook his head.
"Not at this time. Let's figure out your accomadations first."
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