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Everlasting Fire: The Lightning Thief – Chapter 1

The Fishcake that gets an Apple from the Fates

Being a demigod, Naruto was used to the occasional strange occurrences. But now he can honestly say that things had gotten weird even by his standards.

It had all started after he had incinerated Mrs. Dodds– no scratch that! It had all began with the moment Mrs. Dodds had revealed herself to be a monster. And later when he and Percy had gone back outside to find Grover sitting by the fountain, a museum map tented over his head, was when the strange started to turn weird.

The moment Grover had seen the two, or more precisely, Percy, he had released a poorly concealed sigh of relief and had – unintentionally – blurted out, "Thank the gods you're alright."

Naruto had found that odd. It had been then that he had taken notice of the glint in Percy's eyes before he had also said, "Of course we're alright. It was just Mrs. Dodds after all."

Percy's response had earned him a series of nervous fidgets from Grover before he had asked, "Who's Mrs. Dodds?"

Now normally after a monster attack, such a response wouldn't really surprise Naruto, but considering the facts that Grover wouldn't look at the two of them with the tips of his ears turning pink, Naruto knew he had been lying. If there was one thing about Grover, it was that he was an even worse liar than Naruto.

But before anything else could have been said, a completely drenched Nancy Bobofit alongside her ugly friends had appeared beside them before saying to Percy gleefully, "I hope Mrs. Kerr whipped your butt!"

By this point, Naruto had been plain confused.

Why did Grover still remember Mrs. Dodds after he had killed her? He knew Grover wasn't a Demigod – Naruto had confirmed it with Percy – and he most likely wasn't a clear sighted mortal like his mom either or else why would he try to act like he didn't remember Mrs. Dodds. But more than that…

Normally, when Naruto had an incident with a monster disguised as a human, its existence was then gone from the people's memories with there being some lame-ass story of how life continued on without such a person. So then… who the hell was this perky blonde woman that had dropped out of nowhere and at the same time he had killed Mrs. Dodds no less?

Naruto knew that it wasn't the work of a god. He had killed enough disguised monsters with there never being a replacement for them to know that no god will ever waste their time replacing the disguised existences of a monster from some humans' lives.

After that day, the weirdness had continued to get even weirder.

And it had nothing to do with the fact that his classmates continued to act like Mrs. Kerr had been their maths teacher all long – he had once caught Percy rolling his eyes and muttering, "Mist." to himself. No, it was the bad weather that just kept getting worse with earthquakes, floods, and thunderstorms forming all around the world.

At first, Naruto hadn't really thought much of it, thinking that the gods were probably having one of their moods. That is until he had taken notice of how it had appeared like the sky and sea were at war with each other.

That was when he came to the conclusion that something had the gods pissed! And it had something to do with Percy.

What made him come to this realization was Percy's behavior for the coming weeks. Normally, Percy had an aloof and devil may care attitude. But for some reason, with the weather getting worse – Naruto could have sworn that the winds seemed to have something against Percy – his attitude took a one-eighty as he got cranky and irritable, and sometimes even restless and agitated. During those times he would have this dark look on his face that would scare away even the teachers and Nancy Bobofit.

Finally after his grades slipped from C-Ds to Fs – Naruto couldn't even enjoy the little victories as being dyslexic and ADHD, both of them were at the bottom of the class and had this little thing going on to see who gets a better grade than the other – Percy finally snapped at their English teacher by calling him an old sot. Whatever that meant.

Naruto had then prepared to give his mom a call to make sure that Percy still stayed within the school after he got called to the headmaster's office. Thankfully though, it appeared that Naruto didn't need to when the headmaster announced that due to suffering from some sort of 'stress disorder, Percy was to be excused for his less than favorable behavior.'

Naruto had given Percy a deadpan look at that; who for his part had only shrugged in response.

Because Percy never really opened up about what was up with him, Naruto knew pretty much nothing other than it having something to do with Percy's dad and about some dreams he had begun to have.

Furthermore, it wasn't just Percy who was acting weird; Brunner and Grover were also acting strangely too, and if Naruto had to say, similar to Percy with the two showing the same level of restlessness or agitation. Brunner though, appeared much more in control as Naruto would only accidentally catch him with such looks. Other times he acted as professional as always.

Seeing the three behaving like this, Naruto couldn't help but feel left out. To him, they acted like they knew something that he didn't. And it sucked.

Coming back to reality with head dropping on the open book in front of him, Naruto sighed. With everything that has been going on, he really couldn't concentrate on his studies for the finals. It was even more so for Percy who, at that very moment, threw the book he had been holding across the dorm room before dragging a hand over his face.

Watching Percy pace around the room, Naruto commented after a moment of silence, "can't concentrate too I see."

Turning to look at Naruto for a bit, Percy sighed before plopping down on the bed. "Yeah." He muttered tiredly. It seemed that with everything that has been happening, his dyslexia had gone up to a whole new level. "And it sucks too. I really wanted to get a decent enough grade on at least Brunner's test." He commented while looking up at the ceiling.

"Hm…" Naruto hummed to himself as if contemplating it. "In that case, why don't you use your magic on Brunner? That should do the trick."

Percy couldn't help but roll his eyes at the lame joke. "Nah, it doesn't work on Brunner." And it was true indeed. The Mist had no effect on neither Brunner nor Grover what so ever. Now normally, something like that would put him on guard, but Percy had enough experience with those meaning him harm to know that neither of them bore any ill-will towards him and Naruto.

The two genuinely cared for them, enough to worry about their well-being.

Standing up from his sitting position, Percy turned to Naruto. "Why don't we go to Brunner?" He suggested, cutting Naruto off from making a comment about his previous statement. "If it's Brunner, we should be able to concentrate enough to actually get some studying done for tomorrow's exam."

Naruto looked at Percy at that, before looking back at the book to see the words dancing all over the pages, then back at Percy again. "You know what?" Naruto started as he closed the book shut, swung his legs over the bed, and stood up. "Yeah, let's just do that."

It wasn't long before the two found themselves walking downstairs to the faculty offices. Almost all of them were dark and empty save for Mr. Brunner's with the door ajar and the light from his window stretching across the hallway floor.

Right when they were three steps away from the door, was when they heard the voices inside. It appeared that Mr. Brunner asked a question that neither of them could quite catch before a voice that was without a doubt Grover's said, "…worried about Percy and Naruto, sir."

Naruto froze and Percy stiffened.

Now Naruto wasn't usually an eavesdropper – having been taught it was bad manners – but as things stood, there was no way he could walk away while one of his best friends talked about him and his other best friend to an adult who just so happened to be his favorite teacher. While Percy for his part didn't care either way. If Grover and Brunner were discussing about him and Naruto then he was going to listen.

Looking at each other for a moment, both of them inched closer.

"…alone this summer," The two of them heard Grover saying. "I mean, a Kindly One in the school! Now that we know for sure, and they know too–"

"We would only make the matters worse by rushing the two, especially Percy." Brunner interrupted Grover's rant. "There are still a great many things we don't know about the two."

"But Percy may not have time! The summer solstice deadline–"

"Will have to be resolved without him." Brunner once more cut Grover off. "I can't help the feeling that things aren't quite what they appear to be."

"Sir, you can't possibly mean that he could have done it…"

"No. That's not what I meant. Despite admitting that there is more to the boy than meets the eye, he is a lot like his father in that regard so I do not believe that he could have done it."

Hearing what Brunner had just said, both Naruto and Percy had their eyes widened before they once more heard Grover speak.

"Sir, I… I can't fail in my duties again." Grover's voice was chocked with emotions as he said this. "You know what that would mean." His voice was so thick that both of them couldn't help but wonder what could have happened.

"You haven't failed Grover." Mr. Brunner said kindly to Grover's obvious distress. "I should have seen her for what she was. Now let's just worry about keeping Percy alive until next autumn–"

Just then, as if in a stroke of bad luck, Naruto, intending to take a peek inside the classroom, accidentally hit the book in Percy's hand. It dropped with a thud and everything went eerily silent.

"Ah." Naruto blinked at the book on the floor then looked up at Percy as the two stared at each other blankly.

Without saying a word nor breaking eye contact with Naruto, Percy slowly reached for the book on the floor and picked it up. Then on an unspoken signal, the two bolted back to where they came from.

As the two continued to run down the hall, Naruto took the chance to look back only to see the shadow of something much taller than his wheelchair-bound teacher followed by the slow clop-clop-clop just before the scene behind them disappeared, and the two soon made it back to the dorm.

Closing the door behind them as they entered the dorm room, Naruto and Percy sat on their individual beds, facing each other.

"So, now that we are sure those two aren't humans," Naruto began to say, giving a serious pause, "What the hell did you do?"

Percy rolled his eyes at Naruto's comment before replying with a shrug. "Not even I know what the hell it is that I had supposedly done."

Naruto also gave a shrug before changing the subject to something that was bugging him. "Anyways, what's up with Brunner and Grover? I know they are not monsters out to get us. Heck, they seemed more worried about us if anything, especially you and to the point of implying that you were in the danger of getting killed."

Thinking over what Naruto had just said, and while Percy had didn't know as to who they were exactly, he did have a pretty good guess about them. "I don't think we have to worry about them. Besides, Grover is still our friend." Percy said getting a nod of agreement from Naruto on the last part. "But you're right that they are not monsters. They are probably from that place!"

Naruto's eyebrow rose when Percy stressed 'that place' and couldn't help but ask, "What place?"

"The place where –" Percy stared to say when he suddenly stopped and turned his head to the door right before it opened and Grover in walked.

Naruto and Percy briefly made eye contact and came to the unspoken agreement to put off the discussion for a later date.

"Hey guys," Grover greeted with bleary-eyes.

"Yo, G-man!" Naruto greeted back while Percy just gave an acknowledging nod to Grover.

Walking over to the two, Grover took notice of the closed books by their sides and got slightly worried. "You two going to be alright for tomorrow's test?"

Hearing this the two immediately groaned. With the excitement of the moment they had completely forgotten about the damned test and only now came to remember exactly why they had gone to Mr. Brunner's office in the first place! And now worse, whatever little preparation they had done before had completely vanished from their heads.

The two of them then came to the same conclusion: tomorrow was gonna blow.

Seeing their reactions, Grover couldn't help but sweat-drop. "I will take that as a no."

When the next afternoon rolled by, true to their conclusion last night, it had blown – blown big time.

Leaving the three hour long Latin exam, Naruto and Percy were exhausted, both mentally and even physically. Their eyes were still swimming with all the Greek and Roman names they had misspelled. Instead of a test, it had felt more like they had just been through a nightmare! Naruto could even hear Percy mumbling to himself about things like how 'he couldn't believe he just got defeated by a paper test.'

Not that Naruto could blame him though. He himself had taken on many scary monsters before and had always come out on top, no problem! But now he couldn't believe that he had been so helpless against a paper test of all things.

And so, Naruto and Percy came to realize of the evil that was known as paper test.

However, just as they left the classroom, they got called back by Brunner.

For a moment, Naruto got a little worried that he found out about their eavesdropping last night and stole a glance at Percy to see that he once more didn't appear to even care, but when Brunner started to speak, Naruto was secretly relieved that that wasn't the case.

"Naruto, Percy," Brunner started in a low voice so that only the two of them could hear, "the two of you aren't bad students."

Hearing Brunner's unusual words – and admittedly it was the first time they had been called 'not-bad students', something they were sure that the other teachers would wholeheartedly disagree with – Naruto and Percy looked at each other, wondering where he was going with this.

"But the two of you lake the focus for lessons." Brunner said sternly, causing the two to fidget slightly under his gaze. But hey, it's not like it was their fault that they both had ADHD! So excuse them for their short attention-spans. "And it has been especially so during this last semester. But I realize that you have been dealing with some issues so I am willing to let it slide."

While both Naruto and Percy were silently glad for this, they couldn't help but feel like something else was coming. And that came to be true when Brunner spoke again.

"However, when next we meet, I expect only the best from you two." He said this in such a serious tone that the two in question could do nothing but nod wordlessly. "Good, you are free to leave then."

Hearing this, the two wasted no time in leaving the classroom immediately afterwards.

As the two walked side by side down the hallways, Naruto turned to Percy and spoke, "Was it just me or did it seem like Brunner was talking about something other than his Latin class when he said that?"

Percy looked at Naruto from the corner of his eye for a moment before replying, "It wasn't just you. He was definitely talking about something else when he said that."

Though the question was: what was it that Brunner expected only the best from them?

On the last day of the term, Naruto watched Percy pack his things while he played with a little red ball by throwing it into the air and catching it.

Some other guys near them were joking around, talking about their vacation plans. Listening to them talk about where they will be going for the summer, once more reminded Naruto that these idiots may be juvenile delinquents like them, but they were rich juvenile delinquents. He then took notice of one of the guys turning and asking Percy about where he was going for the summer.

Not even sparing the guy a glance, Percy answered simply, "Montauk."

"Oh," one of the guys said. "That's cool." And with that they all once more went back to talking like Percy didn't even exist, who for his part didn't appear to even care.

However, hearing Percy's answer got Naruto thinking. He knew that going to Montauk was a sort of common thing for Percy as he had once told Naruto that it was his home but Naruto found it a bit… strange that Percy would always go to Montauk for every break they got and would disappeared in the process until reappearing back at school after the breaks ended. It couldn't be all that fun, could it?

That was when he got the brilliant idea.

"Hey Perce!" Naruto called out, catching Percy's attention.

"Yeah?" Percy turned his attention to Naruto after he finished packing his things.

"I was thinking." He answered as he went and stood in front of Percy. "You go to Montauk at every break we get,"

"Yeah, so?" Percy eyed Naruto a bit strangely wonder where he was going with this. "I already told you it's my home."

"Yeah but it's got to get boring after a while! So how about a change of plans this year?" He suggested with a grin.

Percy for his part merely raised an eyebrow at this, waiting for Naruto to continue.

"I was thing that we can visit Montauk like you always do but we stay only for a few days!" Naruto said with the grin still present on his face, and just when it looked like Percy was about to say something, Naruto continued, "After that, you can come and spend the rest of the summer with me and grandma!"

This time, both of Percy's eyebrows rose at Naruto's suggestion before he asked, "What about your mom?"

Naruto shrugged. "My mom's away because of some family issues that I don't know about. So she'll probably be away for the summer." He replied simply. While he missed his mom's presence around the house, he still got to talk to her over the phone quite frequently.

When it looked like Percy was about to say something, Naruto once more interrupted him by going and draping an arm over Percy's shoulder and pressing on. "Come on! It's going to be awesome! Besides, we'll be spending the summer with my grandma and I just know she'll adore you! And you know it's going to be way more fun if we spend the summer together!"

Percy couldn't help but roll his eyes at Naruto's pestering. Although, he supposed it couldn't be all that bad. He will get the chance to visit his mom at Montauk, so spending the rest of the summer with his blond best friend and his grandma should be interesting. Plus, he did agree that it would be fun.

Coming to a decision, Percy gave a shrug before accepting, "Sure, why not."

Naruto couldn't help the broad grin that came over his face at Percy's acceptance before commenting, "Cool! So let's head for my home first. We can get grandma to drive us to Montauk then."

Sitting on the Greyhound bus along with Percy, Naruto found it odd that Grover would somehow also end up booking a ticket on the same Greyhound as they had. He shrugged though, thinking nothing more of it as both he and Percy knew that it was no coincident that Grover would end up on the same bus as them.

However, the constant fidgets from Grover as he looked down the aisle, watching the other passengers as if expecting something to pop out and eat the three of them up was annoying him ever so slightly. Despite that fact that it was sort of habitual for Grover to get like this whenever they left Yancy. Those times however, he had always thought that it was because he was worried about getting bullied. Now he knew that was never the case though.

Finally having enough, Naruto blurted out, "Looking for the Kindly ones?"

Grover nearly jumped out of his seat at this. "Wha – what do you mean?"

Looking at Percy for a moment to see him shrug back at him, Naruto turned back to Grover and confessed about eavesdropping on him and Mr. Brunner the night before the exam which caused Grover's eyebrow to twitch before he asked, "How much did you hear?"

This time instead of Naruto, it was Percy who answered, "Oh, not much," He started before his eyes turned slightly cold, "What's the summer-solstice deadline?"

Grover couldn't help but wince slightly at Percy's tone and the look he was giving him. "Look, Percy… I was just worried about you and Naruto, see? I mean, hallucinating about fighting demon maths teachers…"

"Grover –"

Cutting Percy off, Grover just continued on with his rant like Percy never even spoke up, "And I was telling Mr. Brunner that maybe you were over-stressed or something, because there is no such person as Mrs. Dodds and…"

"Grover," This time Naruto started as he gave a deadpan, if slightly unimpressed look at Grover, "You're a really, really bad liar."

Percy nodded along with the same deadpan look as Naruto. Who the hell was Grover trying to fool here? Sure, he had mentioned Mrs. Dodds before but neither he nor Naruto had told him about fighting Mrs. Dodds or anything. But he understood…

Grover was really, REALLY bad at this stuff.

Ears turning an even darker shade of pink, Grover went to fish out a grubby business card. "Just take this, ok? In case you need me this summer."

Looking at Grover for a moment before looking at the card that was in some fancy script, which was murder for their dyslexic eyes, Naruto and Percy finally made out something like:

Grover Underwood, Keeper

Half-Blood Hill

Long Island, New York

(800) 009-0009

Looking at the 'Half-Blood Hill' part, Percy's eyes narrowed. Naruto, though, appeared to be confused before going to ask Grover more about it, "What's half –"

Panicking slightly, Grover immediately yelped out, "Don't say it out loud!" However, looking at Naruto's confused stared, he said, "That's my, um… summer address."

Hearing the last part, Naruto couldn't help but stare at Grover curiously. So like, Grover was from some rich family too? Nah, that possibly couldn't be it. Dismissing his previous thoughts, he inquired further. "Okay… So, like, if we decide to come visit you?"

Grover nodded in response before adding, "Or… or if you need me."

"Why would we need you?" It came out colder than Percy had intended as he watched Grover and even Naruto flinch slightly. He couldn't help it though, despite his attitude most of the time, he was just as impulsive as Naruto.

Blushing right down to his Adam's apple, Grover started once more. "Look Percy, the truth is, I – I kind of have to protect you two."

Naruto and Percy stared at Grover, both finding it incredulous. All year long, both of them had gotten in fights keeping bullies away from him and here he was saying he was to protect them? Now granted, Naruto knew that it wasn't about that and had something to do with them being demigods but it was still unbelievable to him. Besides, Naruto was strong. And ever since finding out about Percy being a demigod too, Naruto has been able to sense his aura and could tell that Percy was just as strong as him.

So excuse him for finding it weird.

"Grover," Naruto started, deciding to pry a bit further into things, "What exactly is it that you are protecting us from?"

However, just as Naruto asked this, and before Grover could even open his mouth to answer, there was a huge grinding noise from under their feet. Black smoke then poured out from the dashboard and the whole bus was filled with a smell like rotten eggs. Cursing to himself, the driver limped the bus over to the side of the highway.

After a few minutes of clanking around in the engine compartment, the river announced that they all had to get off. Following everybody else, Naruto, Percy, and Grover filled out of the bus.

Stepping outside, Naruto noticed that they were on a stretch of a county road – no place you would notice if you didn't break down there. He looked around on their side of the highway to see that there was nothing but maple trees everywhere save for the old-fashioned fruit stand, situated right under the maple trees.

The stuff on sail looked really good: heaping boxes of blood-red cherries and apples, walnuts and apricots, jugs of cider in a claw-foot tub full of ice. There were no customers, just three old ladies sitting in rocking chairs in the shade of a maple tree and knitting the biggest pair of socks he had ever seen. The lady on the left knitted one, the lady on the right knitted the other while the lady in the middle held an enormous basket of basket of electric-blue yarn.

All three looked ancient, with pale wrinkled faces, silver hair tied back in white bandanas and bony arms sticking out of bleached cotton dresses.

But not minding any of those, Naruto was more focused on the fruits that were making him feel hungry. He even chose to ignore that the tree were looking directly at him and Percy.

Turning to the other two, Naruto went to say something but stopped and blinked when he saw a curious yet knowing look on Percy's face while Grover looked like a ghost with how white he had turned at the sight of the three old ladies as ever last drop of blood had drained from his face. His nose was twitching too.

Before Naruto could ask if he was ok, Grover turned to him and Percy shakily before saying in a freaked out voice, "Tell me they are not looking at you two. They are, aren't they?"

"Yeah." Percy began in a curious tone, "Weird huh? You think those socks would fit me?"

Naruto couldn't help but snort at Percy's lame joke. While Grover, if at all possible, freaked out even more.

"Not funny, Percy! Not funny at all!" Just as Grover said this, his breath got caught in his throat when the lady in the middle took out a huge pair of scissors – gold and silver, long–bladed, like shears.

In that moment, still watching Percy and Naruto, the middle one cut the yarn and Percy could swear that the snip could be heard across even the four lanes of traffic. The other two then balled up the electric-blue socks, leaving the two wondering.

Grover couldn't take it anymore at this point. "We're getting on the bus!" He said to the two. "Come on."

"What?" Percy turned to Grover. "It's a thousand degrees in there."

Before Grover could protest, and as if things couldn't get any worse for Grover, Naruto actually started to walk towards the three old ladies.

"Wait!" Grover called out, his heart starting to sink as he watched the blond casually walk towards the freaking Fates! "Where are you going Naruto!?"

Naruto for his part just kept walking. "Where do you think?" He called out from over his shoulder. "I'm hungry, so I'm gonna go get us some apples!"

"Wha–" Just as Grover went to protest and make to move to go and stop Naruto, one of the Fates looked directly at him and he froze in place.

Percy for his part, while curious on how this will play out, stiffened as he watched his blond friend approach the three Fates. He took of hold of his pen with his thumb going over to rub and play with cap, ready to take it off at a moment's notice.

Meanwhile, not minding Grover, Naruto just causally strode over to the three ladies before stopping right in front of them. "Yo!" He greeted the three old ladies who merely regarded him silently. Deciding to not beat around the bush, Naruto pointed a thumb at the fruit boxes. "I need some apples."

Naruto will then silently admit to himself that he did not expect the kind smiles he got from the three before the one on the left told in him in a similarly kind voice, "But of course dear, take as many as you would like."

Deciding to not ponder on his previous thought, Naruto grinned at the three. "In that case, I'll take three!" He said before moving over to the fruit stand and picking up an apple. "One for me." He then picked a second one. "One for Percy." Finally he picked up a third apple. "And one for G-man." Along with his freshly acquired apples, he then went back to the old ladies and asked, "So how much will this be?"

This time the middle one answered him, "Oh, it costs nothing dear. It is free for you."

He was slightly confused as to why it would be free for him, but then only shrugged and chalked it off as the being kind old ladies before grinning once at them. "Cool! Thanks grannies!" He waved at the three before walking back over to his friends – unaware of the glowing, gem-like blue eyes that follow his form.

Once Naruto made it back to his friends – both of whom very relieved that he made it back alive – Naruto tossed each an apple. "Here." He said before biting into his own without a second thought.

Meanwhile, the reactions of his two friends vastly differed from his own.

Percy was looking at the apple curiously, as if wondering if he should eat it or take it home with him as a souvenir.

While Grover held his apple with trembling hands and looked at it like it was the very definition of an abomination.

Seeing that Grover definitely won't be eating his, Naruto turned and asked, "If you're not gonna eat that then can I have it?"

Grover's response was to toss Naruto the apple like it had just burned him. Which was totally strange for him as normally Grover would never turn away from eating an apple.

Percy blinked, breaking out of his thought at Naruto's voice and looked to see that he was already done with his first one. "That was fast."

Naruto shrugged. "I told you I was hungry." He answered before starting on his second apple.

Percy also shrugged and decided to just eat his too.

Just then, at the rare of the bus, the driver wrenched out a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus then shuddered, and the engine came back to life and the passengers cheered.

"Darn right!" The bus driver yelled, slapping the bus with his hat. "Everybody back on board!"

Once they all got back on the bus and got going again, Naruto and Percy noticed that Grover didn't look so good. He was shivering with his teeth chattering, like he'd just caught the flu.

"Hey," Naruto began to say with a concerned frown, "You alright G-man?"

Instead of answering, Grover said something else entirely, "Let me walk you two home from the bus station. Promise me."

Hearing Grover's strange request, Naruto and Percy looked at each other before Percy turned back to Grover and said, "Yeah, sure."

Grover didn't appear to feel any better about the reply and looked at the two mournfully, like he was already picking the kind of flowers they would like best on their coffins. After that he turned to himself and started mumbling about how it was 'always sixth grade' and how they 'never get it past sixth grade'.

Looking at the weird behavior of Grover, Naruto whispered to Percy, "Let's just ditch G-man after this." He was seriously freaking him out now.

"Yeah, I was thinking the same." Percy replied before changing subjects and asking something that was on his mind, "By the way Naruto, you do know that those three back there were–"

"The three fates. Yeah I know." Naruto replied disinterestedly.

"And you still pulled that stunt back there?" Percy questioned with a raised an eyebrow. Even he was unnerved by the fates and there was practically nothing that he knew of that could even faze him at this point.

"Because," Naruto began in an almost bored tone, "I don't believe in fate."

Now Percy was both confused and curious. "But you already said that you knew about them."

"Just because I know those three exist does not mean I believe in Fate!" Naruto answered like it was the most obvious thing.

Percy's eyes widened for a bit as realization of what Naruto was saying finally drowned on him. "So that's how it is." He said with a light grin. He actually liked that point. "Oh and Naruto, there is something else I wanted to know too."

"Hm?" He waited for Percy continue.

"When you went to get the apples, did you notice someone else there too? Aside from the fates."

"Huh?" Naruto blinked and thought back on it. "Not really, no. I don't think there was anyone else there."

"That's weird…" Percy could have sworn he noticed someone else there too. "Was I just imagining it?"

(Meanwhile: Back with the Fates.)

The three Fates sat there silently, watching as the bus disappeared into the distance before Clotho, the Fate of Birth started, "Pardon me for asking, my Lord," Saying this, she along with her two sisters slowly stood up from their chairs and got down on their knees and lowered their heads; bowing to the golden-haired man sitting there, his back leaning on the trunk of the maple tree right beside to theirs. "But are you sure that you did not even want to meet him in person?"

He was dressed casually in black denim jeans and a white button-up shirt with the first few buttons left undone and sleeved rolled up to his elbows. There was also the symbol of a golden flame on the back, right between the shoulders. He was barefoot. While lying on his lap was a small kitten with a flaming blue body, two tails, and heterochromatic eyes.

Looking at the three with a smile on his face while he continued to scratch the kitten behind the ear causing it to purr, he then answered, "Yes. It was not yet time for us to meet face to face." Saying this he proceeded to get up from his sitting position on the ground before making his way over to where Naruto had previously stood.

Reaching out and touching the place from where Naruto had picked up his apples, his two fingers got wrapped in a small flame. "So this is his chakra." He let a small smile play on his face as he watched the fire burn comfortable on his fingers. Turning his head to look at the blue kitten that had suddenly appeared on the same spot Percy had previously stood, he addressed, "What do you think of the other one, Matatabi?"

She put one of her small paws on the ground and blue flame-like energy light up before it turned to water and disappeared. "His chakra is on per with that of Naruto-kun's, Minato-sama!" The kitten, named Matatabi spoke. "For a demigod, even if a child of the big Three, this should not be possible."

The three Fates stiffened at this.

"Is that so," The man, now named Minato turned his eyes to the three, the gesture having not escaped him. He merely smiled once more though. "Come Matatabi, it's time to go." He said, turning and starting to walk away.

"Right." Matatabi nodded her little head before leaping and faster than one could blink their eyes, she appeared in Minato's arms.

"Oh and," Minato started once more as he paused in his walk, "I will be gone for a while, so I am leaving Naruto in your care." He said addressing the Fates.

"As you wish, Lord." The three Fates nodded their heads, unquestioningly.

Once more turning and starting to way away. "There is something else I want you to do as well." Minato once more started to say as he dissolved into brilliant golden flames and disappeared – his voice ringing all around the Fates.

"I want you to lead him to Kurama."

To be continued…

AN: So here's the second chapter you guys! So the first of the Four Heavenly Kings officially makes his appearance and we also get a closer look at their power too. Even the Fates are servants to the Four Heavenly Kings, thus their treatment of Naruto – the sole son of their Lord. And what's this? Something seems to be up with Percy!

Also, the pairing has been decided! It's officially Naruto x Bianca! While thinking about for the past month I came to realize that she worked perfectly with the plot of this story and plus, I like Bianca a lit – definitely much more than Calypso! So yeah, it's Naruto x Bianca!

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El Emperador