Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Percy Jackson
Reading: Fils de l'Amour: The Lost Hero
Chapter 3: Training
"Here you go Percy." Annabeth smiled to her beau, getting him to roll his eyes.
"Fine." He said sounding annoyed, but he still had a small smile on his face.
"A-A son of Athena?" Naruto said, blinking in confusion before it clicked. "Wait, does that mean Athena's my grandmother?!"
"I know, I pity you." Poseidon nodded mocking as Athena just gave him a dull glare.
"Seems that way," said Annabeth with equal surprise. A legacy only one generation away, he's almost eligible to be in her cabin.
"I'd let him let stay." Athena said in an honest tone.
Aphrodite glared at her, "No, he'll stay in my cabin, thank you very much."
"Then I pity him for having to stay in that Barbie house." The wisdom goddess sniffed.
"...Does that make you my aunt?" Naruto asked, a smile spreading across his face.
"Yes." Annabeth nodded with a grin.
"W-well technically yes-" Annabeth started to say, only for Naruto to cut her off.
"Sweet! I'm gonna call you Aunt Annabeth!" He said with a blinding smile. Annabeth blinked before frowning a bit.
The blonde blanched as Percy sniggered at that.
"Please don't call me that." She said.
"Okay...Aunt Annie," said Naruto, grinning widely.
"I like it," Thalia laughed openly.
"Shut up Thalia!"
"Definitely not." Annabeth said flatly.
"What about Auntie Anne?" he asked innocently.
"Oh even better." The hunter smirked as Annabeth glowered at her.
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No!"
"Anna-oba?"
"Not the Japanese nicknames." The grey eyed girl groaned.
"...You're not going to stop until I say yes, are you?" Annabeth asked dryly.
"Nope!" Naruto said with a grin. He was having far too much fun with this.
"Jerk," Annabeth pouted with crossed arms.
"Fine." Annabeth said, giving her nephew a stern look. "Just not in public."
"No! Don't agree! Grr, shut up Thalia!" the blonde shouted at the hunter who was holding her sides in laughter.
"You got it, Anna-baba." Naruto said with a grin. Annabeth just shook her head in exasperation.
"Wasn't that some DBZ character?"
"Leo!"
The blond son of Aphrodite's grin fell slightly as he looked at the book in Annabeth's hands as she started to flip through it. He thought about the war once again, his father's reanimated corpse fighting alongside him in their tailed beast forms, helping Naruto get some near-fatal blows on Obito. He knew that Minato was his father and that he was a strong and smart shinobi, but that was it actually. After Madara was defeated, all of the revived shinobi crumbled back into dirt, his father included. He hardly got to know the man.
"I sense some bonding time coming." Frank said as Annabeth looked interested at the prospect.
"Annabeth." His voice was softer and carried weight in it that hadn't been there before. She looked at him curiously, seeing him look at the book longingly. "C-Could I see that?"
"Of course." The blonde child of wisdom nodded, her other would certainly do so.
"Of course," she said, handing Naruto the book. Annabeth watched as he took it carefully, as though it could turn into dust as soon as he touched it. His brows furrowed as he looked at the lines in the book. He flipped through the pages, the same confused look on his face.
"I know the feeling." Percy nodded in condolences as he had issues with reading ancient Greek when he first started out.
"I...I can't read this," he said. Annabeth immediately gained a look of understanding.
"It's in Ancient Greek," she said. "I could teach you how to read it."
"Really?" Naruto asked, a bit surprised. His smile became splitting it was so wide. "Thanks Annabeth!"
"Aw, isn't that nice." Piper teased playfully.
"Scared he'll like me more?"
"Psh, I'll be the favorite." The charmspeaker said assurance, getting Annabeth to roll her eyes playfully.
"Let's go to a table and we'll start off with the alphabet," said Annabeth, going to one of the work tables covered in papers, strategies of old kings and generals from different eras spread across it, cleaning it a bit to make some room for them.
"It should be a bit more organized." Athena pointed out as her daughter flushed.
"But it's easier to know where stuff is like that to be honest." Her mother just made a hum at the statement.
"...This is going to take a while isn't it?" Naruto asked, a bit hesitant to begin a 'class'. He leaned his staff against a wall by the bunks and quickly joined her by the table.
"Well yeah, it's not like you can just learn Ancient Greek in a day," said Annabeth with a snort.
"Great," Annabeth huffed, "He's going to show off the clones."
"You're sooo jealous."
Annabeth pinched Percy's arm with pink cheeks, "Shut it." She mumbled as the boy said ouch, but was still grinning at her.
"You have to put in hours of effort, it could take months before you could read Ancient Greek without struggling. Usually year round campers get it down in their first year."
"...Months, huh?" Naruto asked, dropping the journal on the desk. He lifted his hands into his favorite – or coined, depending on who you asked – seal. "Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Annabeth covered her face with her arms as smoke suddenly exploded around her, and she cut through it with her knife getting a popping sound.
"Knifing your own nephew?"
"It suddenly exploded in my cabin, forgive me for being jumpy Thalia."
When the smoke fully cleared, her eyes widened as filling the room to the brim with Naruto duplicates, all grinning at her. There was even one hanging from the rafters of the cabin by his feet, while about half of them had claimed the bunks to the side as seats. The rest were either seated atop the bookshelves or standing around her with their arms crossed or their hands on their hips.
"Every girl's fantasy come to life."
"Aphrodite!" Artemis hissed.
"What" the goddess blinked, any girl would be drooling at a sight like this.
"Wha-What is this?" Annabeth asked.
"My favorite jutsu!" A Naruto, hopefully the original, said with a blinding grin. "The Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, a forbidden A-rank jutsu that lets me make 'shadow clones' of myself from my chakra. I'm my own army and the best part is, every experience a clone gets before it dispels I retain for myself!"
"And cue jealous fit of the century."
"Oh be quiet, Piper." Annabeth pouted as the Native American grinned. She wasn't jealous…she wasn't! Okay, she was. But how could she not be?!
"You lucky jerk...And they're corporeal," said Annabeth, poking one of the clones in the chest, making him bat away her hand with a smirk. She frowned at it and punched it in the arm, making it pop and making her gasp in surprise.
"Oh, yeah, but they're extremely fragile," said Naruto with a chuckle, his clones grinning while in the back a couple of clones broke into a fight. They dispelled each other and Naruto rubbed the bridge of his nose. "They're insubordinate, too. Idiots."
"A terrible down side." Hermes stated with a shake of his head, but they'd be wonders for business.
"Cloned from the best!" One chirped before another dispelled it with a hard punch. Naruto smirked at his clones before looking back at the awed Annabeth.
"Do you know what I would do to be able to do something like this?" Annabeth asked him. "Can you teach me?"
"Ooh, sorry Annabeth," Hazel winced, "You need chakra."
"Stop rubbing it in!" the grey eyed girl whined with a pouty pout.
"Yeah, see...it's forbidden for a reason," said Naruto, scratching the back of his neck sheepishly while some of the clones began to flip through the books on the shelves, able to read the English texts. "The technique costs so much chakra that it would kill anyone with less than jonin level reserves. Lucky for me, I've got at least two Kage's worth on my own. Heck, this batch barely cost a tenth of my reserves."
Annabeth just sat down and rubbed her head as she took this all in. From what she read from her mother's journal about Minato, chakra had to be trained from a young age in order to be used. It allowed the mortals of the moving continent, or the Isle of Letoides as it was once called before it expanded in size, to do amazing feats, but this...she never expected a legacy of all people to have the ability to learn as fast as he wanted to.
Athena was beaming in pride at that mention.
And being a son of Aphrodite, Naruto was attractive naturally, and already there were whispers around the camp, so went the gossip at her table from her sisters, about him. If it ever got out that he could fill the camp with clones of himself...Poor guy would never be left alone.
"True." Piper nodded, the girls at camp were like that at times.
"Dude have them flocking to him in droves." Leo whistled but rubbed his chin, "Think he needs a wingman?"
"Leo."
"Wha? Just asking is all." The pyro waved off Jason's look.
"So what do you want us to do?" Naruto asked, breaking Annabeth from that line of thought. She looked around at the expectant and curious blonds looking at her, making her smirk and stand up.
"Direct those troops Annie."
"Oh you know I will. Time for super teaching."
"Poor guy." Percy muttered, but the playful slap to his shoulder meant his girlfriend heard him.
"Alright, on the bookshelf is several copies of Ancient Greek for beginner books, lets get started on that," said Annabeth. The clones immediately looked to the others swarming the bookshelves and Naruto sheepishly scratched the back of his head.
"Guess they were a step ahead of you," he said with a chuckle.
"Good policy." Annabeth snorted in amusement, oh that looked fun.
After an hour of the beginner books, Naruto had the basics down, though he nearly collapsed from the information intake when the clones dispelled all at once. Annabeth guessed that made sense, considering that the human – and demigod – brain could only handle so much at a time.
"Still, getting the basics down that fast. It's very good." Athena nodded as Poseidon rolled his eyes. Order, she sounded so smug.
They ended the lesson there, Annabeth a bit hesitant to do any more despite Naruto's urging. She wanted to see how he did with his chosen weapon anyway on the training field. The second she said the word 'training', Naruto's eyes lit up excitedly. The blond moved so fast he didn't wait for Annabeth to finish telling him where to go.
"Finally, we get so see some action." Ares praised, seriously, it was getting boring.
She managed to catch up with him and show him to the sparring grounds where a couple of brutish kids were. They all had the same Camp Half-Blood shirt on but over that wore camouflaged jackets. Off to the side was a girl dressed in the same manner with a spear in hand, watching two of the guys roll around on the ground.
"I think Cabin Five is going to get owned by another new guy." Percy smirked, as Ares snarled at him.
No they wouldn…damn, they might.
She looked up at their arrival.
"What's up, Owl-head?" she said, smirking at Annabeth. Naruto knew it was a derogatory name, but from the smirk and her posture could tell she meant it all in good fun. Reminded him of Sasuke calling him Dobe or himself calling the jerk Teme.
"We're better then when we were younger," the blonde smirked, "That's for sure."
"Nothing much, Clarisse," Annabeth said. She gestured to him. "This is Naruto Uzumaki, new counselor of Cabin Ten. Naruto, this is Clarisse LaRue, counselor of Cabin Five."
"...Ares, right?" Naruto asked. Clarisse's smirk grew.
"Not bad for a newbie. Time for initiation?" she asked, a bit eager to go for it.
"Really?" Percy asked in a dry tone.
"They just don't do it in front of you anymore." Annabeth informed him, getting the raven haired boy to frown, not cool.
"No, Clarisse," said Annabeth, shaking her head. "I just want to see how good he is with his weapon."
"A Bo staff?" Clarisse asked, looking at the long stick Naruto held in one hand and rested on his shoulder. She smirked. "Not a spear or a sword?"
"Spears have a tip that's off balance and my best friend back home has a sword for his shtick." Naruto said with a shrug.
"Got to be original." Apollo nodded in approval.
There was a familiar shriek and Naruto looked up as Miu swooped in and landed on his unoccupied shoulder. "I was wondering where you were."
Miu crooned once more as he rubbed his finger under her beak, all the while Clarisse and Annabeth watched the interaction in confusion.
"I know, we all are." Leo nodded, "That is one weird bird."
"Eagle." Zeus corrected sternly.
Hades rolled his eyes, "It's a bird, face facts." Zeus just glared at him.
"What's with the bird?" Clarisse asked, getting an insulted cry from Miu.
"Hush Miu, she didn't mean anything by it." Naruto said, calming the eagle. "Miu is a-"
"Golden eagle," said Annabeth, looking at the bird of prey with interest.
"Thank you." Zeus said as Annabeth smirked.
"Well, yeah, but I was gonna say she's a friend," said Naruto with a grin while Miu gave him a small croon for his soft stroke along her beak. "She sorta got attached to me while Billy and I were coming to camp."
"It could be a sign from Zeus," said Annabeth quietly, trying to figure out why the King of Olympus' sacred bird was with Naruto.
"Because he liked the little windy thingy." Poseidon stated knowingly as he grinned to his brother.
"It wasn't a thingy, it was amazing." The king huffed.
"Nah, she would've told Billy something on our way here," said Naruto looking at his eagle with a grin. "She just decided to come along for the ride. Right, Miu?" Miu cried out again, making him chuckle. He may not know what she said exactly, but he got the gist of it from the feelings in her voice.
"See, own free will, Poseidon."
"Yes yes." The sea god waved off his pompous brother.
He looked back at Annabeth with his grin still in place. "So are we going to do this or what?"
"Sure, let's just-"
"Hold on there, Owl-head," said Clarisse, cutting Annabeth off and getting their attention. "I think I should test the new guy. He is taking Silena's job you know."
Annabeth winced, "Yeah, she'd want to see what he can do."
"How bad was she with Drew?" Piper asked.
"I think she once broke Drew's arm for bad mouthing Silena."
"Ouch, good on her." The charmspeaker nodded, Drew deserved it.
"Clarisse, I don't think-"
"Who's Silena?" Naruto asked, blinking. Both of the girls looked at him like he was in the process of growing a second head before Clarisse's eyes narrowed.
"Silena Beauregard was the best counselor that Cabin Ten ever had and was one of the biggest heroes of the Second Titanomachy," said Clarisse, her voice dangerously stern.
The warriors of Manhattan nodded to that and Piper had a smirk on her face while her mother gave a sad sigh at the loss of her eldest child.
"That bitch Drew was not worthy of taking her job and now I want to see if you are, blondie. Right now, you're teetering to the side of not being worthy. I don't care what Billy said you did to that Hydra."
"I think she's going to eat those words." Annabeth muttered.
"Yeah, but we still get to see some action with Naruto and his weapon." Jason added, sounded like a good time if he was honest.
Naruto blinked at that and grinned at the challenge. "I'll show you that I am, and when we're done, you can tell me more about Silena. She sounds awesome!"
"And there's that cheerful nature to him." Nico pointed out, "He's different from Apollo Naruto."
"Probably because he didn't 'die'." Thalia said with a frown.
"You should probably get ready to sweat and bleed, Blondie," said Clarisse, gesturing to his jacket and the shirt he was wearing. Naruto looked down at his jacket with conflicting emotions before shrugging. He could always just sew it back together.
"So gets that from grandma." Hermes smirked as Athena huffed. It was a useful skill.
"I'm good," he said, taking his necklace off and holding it out to Annabeth. "Mind holding this for me though? It's...sentimental."
"Sure," said Annabeth, taking the necklace for him while Miu took to the sky.
"Clarisse is gonna fight the new guy!" cried out from a member of Cabin Five. The fighting kids gathered around them on either side of the two, and Annabeth stepped back to join them while Miu landed on the branch of a tree not too far away. There was a bit of chattering and Naruto saw familiar faces from his cabin joining up with members of Clarisse's. Malcolm and a few of his siblings joined the circle as the word quickly spread, surprising Naruto at that.
"Gossip travels fast." Annabeth laughed as everyone was eager to see how this would play out.
He also noticed there were a whole lot of other girls gathered around his sisters, making him blink in surprise and wonder whose children they were.
"To ogle the new meat no doubt," Aphrodite smirked, "Not that I blame them, my boy is amazingly handsome after all."
Deciding to put those thoughts aside, Naruto rolled his neck and gripped his Bo staff at the center with both hands, twisting and separating it while Clarisse pointed her spear at him. Naruto twirled his two baton-like staves in his hand before settling in a stance with one pointed at Clarisse while the other was parallel with his head, keeping the pointed edges in from his opponent. There was nothing but the soft chanting of Clarisse's name from her cabin mates and a few others, one sounded suspiciously like Drew.
Piper just gave a dull blink, really? Just, really? Drew, your shallowness knows no bounds.
Naruto took a deep breath before his eyes hardened and he shot backward to compensate for Clarisse's charge.
Sidestepping the thrust aimed at his midsection, Naruto used his right baton to knock her spear down into the dirt and his left to deliver a swift strike to her shoulder. Clarisse hissed, retreating and rolling her shoulder to relax it while they circled each other. Naruto used his batons to deflect small jabs sent at his head and body, getting a few whispers from the crowd.
"Decent so far." Ares mused.
"Didn't he mess with your boy Mark as Apollo's boy?"
"Fuck off speedstick."
"Stop pussyfooting around and someone draw blood already!" shouted a guy in the crowd.
"Yeah!" Ares cheered too as Frank shook his head in shame.
Clarisse's eyes hardened at that and she once more thrust forward, which Naruto sidestepped again, but he failed to avoid the sudden blow across the face from the other end of her spear.
"How dare she!"
"Dite, it's a fight."
"Not the point Ares! It's the money maker, you don't touch that!"
Naruto rolled with it, quickly getting back to his feet while moving his jaw around to make sure nothing was broken. That was going to bruise.
"How'd you like that one, blondie?" Clarisse asked with a smirk.
"My friend Sakura hits harder than you," said Naruto absentmindedly, though Clarisse still took it as an insult considering the feminine name he used.
"Wasn't that the one who could make earthquakes with her fists?" Athena noted with a sly look to Poseidon who bristled.
"Yep." Thalia said, not liking the pink bitch at all. Her pink wasn't even the main reason she hated her surprisingly.
"Are you saying I hit like a girl?!"
"...Yes?"
"Bad wording." Percy snickered, Clarisse would take that way out of proportion.
"You're dead!" Clarisse said, charging at him and stabbing her spear right at his head. Naruto yelped, wondering what he said wrong, as he ducked and dodged out of the way of her spear. He dodged too soon in one instance, allowing Clarisse to once more strike out with the other end of her spear and get Naruto right in the gut. Naruto's eyes went wide and he fell to his knees with a gasp as the air was forced out of him. That was definitely a Sakura-like hit.
"When angered, girls can always did hard as hell." Apollo said, knowing from experience. Artemis just sent him a smug look that made him wince.
He coughed and used his left stave to get back to his feet, ducking under a side-swipe of Clarisse's spear and stumbling back as she did a swipe back in the way it came.
There was a sound of tearing fabric and Naruto looked down to see his shirt sliced open, revealing his stomach.
"Give the girls something to dream about!"
"Mom!"
There was a catcall and a few whistles that came from behind Clarisse, making her drop her focus on him for one second to use her peripheral vision in an effort to determine where that came from.
"Ooh, bad move war girl." Percy shook his head.
Naruto used this distraction to his advantage by getting inside Clarisse's defense. He used his left stave to keep her spear down and out of his way while bringing the right up over his shoulder and then swinging it, cracking Clarisse across the face hard enough to send her to the ground.
That got a collective of winces from the demigods as Ares gritted his teeth. Oh the girl better not lose, he was Dite's kid! And a legacy of Athena, that would be even more insulting!
Naruto had his staves at his side while he panted, raising them up on his guard while Clarisse got to her feet, rubbing the left side of her jaw. She moved her jaw much like he did his own when he got hit before she turned to the side and spat out a tooth.
"Now that has to suck." Apollo winced, he prided on his kids having perfect teeth like their awesome dad.
She looked back at the blond son of Aphrodite, who stepped away from her spear and thus from her while staying in his defensive stance.
"...Not bad, Blondie." Clarisse said, picking her spear up with a savage grin on her face while a bit of blood came from the corner of her mouth. She twisted part of the spear and the head crackled to life caked in red electricity.
"Lamer." Percy snickered as Ares glared at him.
"...That's so cool," said a grinning Naruto. His grin fell. "Oh...You're going to use that on me, aren't you?"
"Yep."
"...Well, shit."
"I had the same reaction." Percy said with a look of sympathy on his face.
Naruto was once more put on the defensive, avoiding the head of Clarisse's spear while it was thrusted in his direction again and again. More tears were added to his shirt, which he could honestly care less about, but a few that nicked his arms made him groan in annoyance. His jacket was totally going to get shredded or burnt.
"Gets that from his mother." Artemis smirked, "Seems he really is yours."
"And what was the claiming, hm?"
Artemis just smirked more, getting the love goddess to huff. So her boy was worried about his jacket, that just meant he liked it!
"Time out, time out!" Naruto said, jumping back from Clarisse's spear.
"No time outs, surrender!"
"C'mon, just let me take my jacket off! I love this thing!"
"Poor guy," Piper nodded, she liked her boarder jacket too.
"Not happening, Blondie!"
"What happened to common courtesy?!" Naruto asked as he slid out of the way of another thrust that nicked the carving on his left arm. "Oi! That tears it!"
He crouched low to the ground before jumping up, making the demigods watching crane their necks up high as he did. Miu let out a cry and took off after him, their height hidden by the fluffy white clouds passing overhead.
"A jump Superman would be proud of." Leo whistled. Seriously, white boy can jump.
A second passed before Miu returned, in her talons held carefully was the orange jacket Naruto was vehement about getting to safety. She dropped it in Lacy's arms before returning to her perch.
"At least the jacket's safe."
"Yes," Hermes nodded to the lady of doves, "let's not worry the kid just jump how many feet?"
"Oh hush, Hermes."
"Thought so."
Clarisse ignored the eagle, keeping her eye on the sky and waiting patiently.
A minute ticked by and she scowled. How high did he jump? How the heck did he even manage to jump that high?
"Can he fly or something?" Frank asked at the air time the guy was having.
"No," Zeus stated.
There was another cry and another eagle flew down to land on a branch opposite of Miu. Clarisse felt her eye twitch in annoyance.
"Come down here you freaking coward!"
"Well, since you asked so nicely." Clarisse swiveled around to look behind her but saw nothing aside from the crowd and Miu perched on the branch. Clarisse turned around again, searching for him. This turned out to be her downfall.
"How sad," Athena said in a haughty tone as Ares glared at her.
She heard a pop, the crowd gasp, her name called by her cabin mates, and then felt something blunt strike her upside her head. Clarisse fell forward as her vision went dark, catching herself on her knees and going still when a pointed end of Naruto's stave was held at her throat.
"Owned," Percy grinned, Naruto was still Naruto, and he was awesome.
"I win." Naruto said with a grin from where he stood next to Clarisse.
"...The Henge no Jutsu." Annabeth said under her breath. He had disguised himself as the first Miu to land, while the other waited before landing on the other side of the circle.
Frank looked grumpy, "That's my thing." He said sounding put out.
Hazel just rubbed his arm, "It's okay, you do it better." That got the Canadian to smile.
When Clarisse had her back on him, he took advantage and got her pinned. It was truly a strategy worthy of Athena.
"A simple misdirection, basic, but then again, those are always best at times."
"Stuff it owl head." The war god sneered and crossed his arms. Twice the blond humiliated his kids, in two different dimensions!
"...How the hell did you do all of that?" Clarisse asked when he lowered his stave from her neck. Naruto put his weapons back into their Bo staff form and grinned at her.
"Ninja moves," he said, getting a frown from Clarisse.
"Very nice moves." Annabeth smirked, man, being a ninja sounded so awesome!
He yelped when she socked him in the arm.
"That was for saying I hit like a girl," she said.
"But Sakura hits really hard!" Naruto said with a whine, rubbing his arm. "She can break boulders with her punches..."
"It was really a compliment, or something." Leo hummed in thought.
"...Oh..." Clarisse said with a sheepish smile. "Sorry."
"It's no big deal." Naruto said, shrugging. He looked down at his shirt and frowned. "Was all that necessary? This literally is the only shirt I have."
While Clarisse prepared a smartass reply, Naruto pulled his long sleeved shirt off, getting an even louder whistle from his sister Lacy. The daughter of Ares gaped at his spontaneous decision to strip and, regrettably, admired his form.
"Doesn't she have a boyfriend?" Piper asked.
"Sweetie, let the girl look, nothing wrong with that."
His abs were worked to the point you could probably chisel diamonds on them and his pecs were large enough for her hand to fit in. His shoulders were as big as her fist and his arms were at least twenty two inches around. He was definitely not built like a son of Aphrodite that was for sure.
"Very true." Ares stated, getting a pout from his girlfriend.
"Man..." Naruto's voice broke many girls from their staring. He was looking over his torn shirt with a frown. "It's gonna take at least thirty minutes to fix all of these holes. And my jacket."
"Good time estimation." Athena appraised.
"Naruto, you could always just get a camp shirt from the camp store," said Annabeth, shaking her head in amusement. He had to be talking about sewing, which is something he had to have gotten from Athena. Naruto looked at her with a blink before he grinned.
"There's a camp store? Cool!" he said, beaming as he folded his shirt up and threw it over his shoulder. Miu landed on his shirt-covered shoulder, making Naruto chuckle as he followed his aunt to where the camp store was. Aphrodite's cabin swiftly followed, intent on helping their brother look good
"You go kids!"
Piper just palmed her face at her mom's cheering.
while the crowd dispersed, a lot of the girls watching gossiping about the new hottie.
"Sadly yes." Annabeth grumbled, seriously, Naruto was going to have problems with all these girls, he was almost too good looking for his own good.
Clarisse's cabin mates walked over to her, her second-in-command Mark smirking at her.
"So Clarisse...should we warn Chris he may have some competition from the new guy?"
"Burn," Thalia laughed.
"Shut up, Mark!"
"What an Ares response."
"Fuck off cripple!"
"See."
Naruto was absolutely giddy as he walked out of the camp store, completely oblivious about the furious blush that was on the face of the poor cashier from when he walked in.
"That poor girl," Hazel snickered.
The camp shirt was orange. He could honestly die happy now...
"Oh yeah, he loves that color." Jason nodded in remembrance.
Well, maybe not now since that would leave Drew in charge again, but that's not the point he's trying to make. Sure it was a bit tight, but his sisters said it was better that way.
"Nice call, girls."
He really wished they had fishnet armor, though.
When he had asked for where he could get some armor he was told to go to Hephaestus' cabin, who he recalled were technically his step-siblings considering his mother's marriage to Hephaestus. He was curious about them, especially when Annabeth told his gossiping sisters to stop talking about some 'curse' that was on their cabin.
"Meh, I fixed it," Leo bragged.
Mitchell explained it, talking about the death of the last counselor, Silena's boyfriend, Charles Beckendorf, being the cause of it.
So now, there he went, off to satisfy his curiosity with complete disregard for the camp schedule that Annabeth was trying to get him to stick to.
"That little-!"
"He's taller than you." Piper told her.
"That big jerk! At least follow the paper." The blonde pouted.
"Naruto, c'mon you want to be a good cabin counselor, don't you?" Annabeth asked as she followed him.
"Well yeah, but I also want to see Hephaestus' cabin and meet his kids. They're supposed to be my brothers and sisters right?" Naruto asked
Hephaestus snorted at that while Aphrodite rolled her eyes as well, it was a sweet thought, but no.
as he looked up at the soaring Miu, who was keeping an eye on him from above. That bird really did not like him being out of her sight.
"By technicality, yeah I guess, but they're only your step-siblings." Annabeth said. "And your mom and Hephaestus don't really get along well."
"No, really?" Naruto asked sarcastically.
"Boy couldn't have said it better." The smith muttered.
Even he figured that out. How his mom managed to grow up as a Jinchuriki while being a goddess, Naruto wasn't sure, but he did know through their word and through Konohan law that Kushina Uzumaki was married to Minato Namikaze, even if she didn't take his name. He was pretty sure that Hephaestus would've smote his father, demigod or not, for marrying Aphrodite if they were that close. That didn't mean Naruto didn't feel bad for the guy, though.
The smith god for once was a bit stunned, Dite's kid feeling bad for him…was Kronos coming back?
"Hey, watch the sarcasm, buddy."
"Sorry Anna-baba."
"What did I say about calling me that?!"
"Yeah! Not in public." Thalia sniggered as Athena turned pink and glared at her for the remark.
"Something about not in public or something, I dunno." He shrugged and walked up the steps to the machine oriented cabin. Raising his fist, Naruto banged on the metal door and waited patiently before it creaked and pulled open. The girl that opened it was pretty, a lot like the other girls in the camp, but not in a way like his sisters were. She was more like an experienced kunoichi, like Tenten or Temari, with a hard face that was accented by soft curves instead of angles. Her skin was mocha colored and she had dark hair held back by a red bandanna.
"First person I saw when I went there too." Leo smirked.
"Hi!" Naruto said with a grin and a raised hand while she stared at him. His eyes shut as he continued to friendly grin at his stepsister, thus making him miss the small lick of her lips while her eyes worked up and down his body.
Leo blanched, "Did not need to hear that."
"Why?" Piper grinned, "Too much for you playboy?"
"Yes!"
Annabeth cleared her throat, making both of them look at her, in Naruto's case with a confused look while the girl looked annoyed.
"Annabeth, you shouldn't stop a girl from ogling, it isn't nice." The love goddess mock scolded as the blonde rolled her eyes.
"Hi, Nyssa." Annabeth said, an amused smile on her face at the girl, Nyssa's, annoyed look. "This is Naruto Uzumaki, new counselor of Cabin Ten. He wants to meet Jake."
"Of course he is," said Nyssa, sounding a bit disappointed. She smiled back at Naruto, once again reminding him of Temari or Tenten with the confidence she had behind it. "Name's Nyssa, come on. I'll take you to Jake."
"I'll be back at the cabin then, Naruto. You should go talk to Chiron when you're done here to get a schedule," said Annabeth, shaking her head.
"Always with the organization," Nico shook his head.
"It's important!" Annabeth argued.
"Uh-huh."
"Okay." Naruto said with a grin as she walked off, before walking in and looking around at the steam pipes that made the cabin sweltering hot. "Whoa, you guys really are the smith god's kids, aren't you?"
"Damn right." Leo nodded.
"And don't you forget it, blondie," said Nyssa, smirking. She opened a door and Naruto nearly burst into pools of sweat then and there, finding the main forges of the camp. Several guys and a couple of girls were gathered around a table, one guy pointing at something on it. Nyssa whistled, making them look up. She nodded in Naruto's direction. "Jake, the new cabin counselor wants to meet you."
"Okay, he's met me," said the guy that was pointing at the table, assumed to be Jake. "He does know we're in the middle of working on our problem, right?"
"Dragons," Leo shook his head, "It's always the dragons."
"Leo, we get it." Jason rolled his eyes, but Leo just grinned cheekily.
"Problem?" Naruto asked, walking into the room. Nyssa lingered behind him a bit,
"No doubt to check out dat ass." Apollo laughed as Leo groaned, not wanting to hear this!
but came up to his side when he stopped. He held a hand out. "Naruto Uzumaki, Cabin Ten."
"You're the guy that was at the top of the hill, right?" Jake asked, taking his hand and shaking it in a firm grip. "The one crying about his calluses?"
"Low blow," Ares snickered.
"...Shut up." Naruto said with a pout as he took his hand back.
"Has Dite's pout, that's for sure." Hermes smirked.
"Oh, I think we're going to get along just fine." Jake said with a small laugh. "Wish I could talk some more, but we've kind of got a problem to deal with."
"Can I help?" Naruto asked. Jake smirked at him and clapped him on the arm.
"Not unless you know how a converter connects to a socket." He said.
"You put a thing in a thing." Jason simplified getting Leo to glare.
"Not cool dude.
Didn't stop Jason from smirking though.
"Uh..."
"Don't worry about it," said Jake. "It's the thought that counts. We really need to get back to work on this though."
"Alright, well if you need help let me know," said Naruto. He put his hands in his pockets and shrugged. "I guess I'll go talk to Chiron and get a schedule."
"Hey while you're there can you tell him we'll probably be in the forest again?" Jake asked.
"Dude is into self-inflicting pain."
"Leo," Hephaestus rumbled, "Not all are immune to fire."
"Festus' fire still hurt though." The boy mumbled.
Naruto nodded, making the counselor grin. "Thanks."
"No problem." Naruto said with a smile. Nyssa led him back out of the cabin and inviting him back whenever he needed some work done. Naruto just grinned as he left Cabin Nine, looking at Miu as she landed on her perch on his shoulder. "Cabin Nine is awesome, Miu. Especially Nyssa, she's pretty cool for someone who deals with so much heat."
"Hm," Aphrodite rubbed her chin with a smirk.
"Mom, stop plotting."
"Aw," the goddess whine for being called out by her daughter, "I was just thinking!"
"Please don't." Piper shivered, feeling sorry for Naruto already.
Naruto enjoyed a calm walk to the Big House, shaking his head in amusement at the ridiculous name the building had. He really hoped one of the kids of an older generation called it that, because the last thing Naruto needed was some god getting on his back about laughing at their building's name. Miu seemed to really enjoy the camp from what Naruto could feel through his empathy. What kind of bummed Naruto out though was his lack of interaction with Billy. Seriously, he felt ditched.
"Wow, dude ditched him? Harsh."
Dionysus snorted at the pyro, "Please, he has to talk to Grover, business before fun Lion-o."
Brushing off the feeling of being ditched, Naruto took his surroundings in, watching the campers as they 'trained'. Now, Naruto wasn't Rock Lee or Maito Gai, but he did way more than the campers did. This felt like, well, it felt like it was aptly named: a camp.
"We like to have fun too." Percy frowned.
Maybe Naruto could introduce these guys to some real training. He wondered what the hand-to-hand was like and if it could keep up with his Gama-Ken.
"So Naruto swoops in and begins training the brats once more. Good." Ares nodded, the kid does good work.
"Naruto!" Well, if it wasn't the goat that ditched him.
"Burn the goat!"
Naruto grinned as Billy came up alongside him, a grin on his face while he wore the same orange shirt. Miu squawked at him and Billy chuckled. "No, I didn't forget you, Miu. You guys liking camp so far?"
"It's amazing," said Naruto with a grin. He frowned. "You didn't tell me that Percy Jackson went missing."
"Oh...yeah, well...I figured he was at home with his mom," said Billy. "He isn't a year rounder so I didn't really hear much other than he wasn't in his cabin when I left for New York."
"Reasonable." Percy nodded, not the young goat's fault than.
"You also didn't tell me about Silena Beauregard or Charles Beckendorf."
"Okay, that was my bad.
"Yes it was." Piper and Leo nodded.
I was more concerned with the fact that you're a sage," Billy said. "For a satyr that's like meeting a demigod of Pan...May he rest in peace."
"Really?" Percy asked as Apollo and Hermes nodded.
"So true wethead, that is big stuff. Sage is a dead career in today's world."
"Sad fact," Hermes nodded to his brother's words.
Naruto nodded in agreement, recalling the tale of Pan and his unfortunate death. He would've liked to meet the original Sage. As he thought that, Naruto wondered who the father of the Old Sage was. Knowing that gods and demigods existed raised a lot of questions for the grandson of Athena.
"Come on, Grover and Chiron want to talk to you." Billy said, making Naruto arch a brow and follow the young satyr up into the large farmhouse. Billy led Naruto through the building to the back porch where the other satyr from before and Chiron were playing a game of cards.
"Without me?" Mr. D actually pouted, not fair.
"Grover, if you try to eat your hand again, I'm going to pull out the pinnacle chips. Honestly, the one good thing that came from the Recall was the freedom to play whatever game I wanted," said Chiron, giving a stern look to the dark haired satyr.
"Why that cheeky centaur!"
"Sorry," Grover said sheepishly looking up with the board creaked under Billy's hoof. "Oh hey Billy!"
"Hi Grover," said Billy, beaming a grin at his 'hero'.
"Just your average goat superhero." Thalia smirked, glad that her favorite goat was so well respected now.
He nodded respectfully at Chiron. "Chiron."
"William," said Chiron, getting a groan from the satyr. The centaur noticed the blond behind him and smiled. "Ah, Mr. Uzumaki. Welcome to the Big House. Annabeth told me you'd be coming by, something about not going by a schedule."
"Shame on you," Percy mocked, hehe, take that Naruto!
"Well...you know, being new and all," said Naruto with a sheepish chuckle.
"True, I may have rushed that. I planned to catch you after lunch, but you rushed off before I could," said Chiron, he then nodded to the eagle still on Naruto's shoulder. "I see your friend hasn't left yet."
"Yeah, Miu's a real sweetie. Right Miu?" Naruto asked with a smile to the bird as he stroked under her beak, getting a croon.
"She really likes you," said Grover in a mumble, lifting a card up to his mouth and dropping it at Chiron's clearing throat.
"Honestly, he'll eat anything." Annabeth laughed, ah, good times.
The satyr flushed and set his hand down before he ate it. He looked at Billy, who nodded, and then at Naruto again. "You know...Billy said you were a sage."
"Telling secrets behind my back? I wondered why I sneezed earlier," Naruto said with a smirk.
"Oh come on, they of all people deserve to know," said Billy with a roll of his eyes.
"True," Hermes nodded.
"Are you?" Grover asked seriously.
"Wow, G-man serious, he isn't even faking it." Percy commented, man, he's come a long way.
As the Lord of the Wild and the Chosen One of Pan, Grover had to be sure that all things related to nature aside from gods were, well, naturally right. Billy had told him that Naruto, while awed at the advances of humanity, felt sad that so much nature had to be sacrificed for these advances, making Grover skeptical. Not even Percy was that sympathetic with the satyr's cause.
"Yes I am!"
"Really?" Nico asked in sarcastic disbelief.
"I happen to recycle."
Annabeth patted Percy's cheek, "Stop talking Seaweed Brain." She told him in a pitying tone.
Percy brooded at that.
"I am," said Naruto. He grinned. "Let me guess, you want me to show you?"
"If you wouldn't mind?" Chiron asked, admittedly a bit curious. It had been a while since he met a sage, and that was at least fifteen hundred years ago.
"Okay," Percy nodded to Apollo's earlier statement, "that is a long time ago."
"Sure." Naruto said with a shrug. It wasn't like he had anything better to do, and it was always refreshing to meditate.
He moved to the railing of the big house and took a seat on it. Like so many times before, Naruto crossed his legs and let his hands fall into his lap.
"Good balance." Piper smirked, it was like he was just floating on the railing.
Within seconds, being so close to the Lord of the Wild had its benefits, Naruto was in sage mode, getting wide eyes from Grover and Chiron. Miu cried out again, settling onto her roost on Naruto's shoulder as nature embraced him. Behind him satyrs, dryads and animals came out of the woods to look at the blond.
"Now watch as the nature spirits follow the blond as he shows his epicness." Apollo said in a documentary tone.
"I don't believe it," said Chiron, not as affected by Naruto's presence as the rest of the nature spirits in camp. The campers soon gathered as well, wondering why the dryads and satyrs were gathered around the blond.
"Because my boy is amazing." The love goddess bragged proudly.
Demeter's children soon became a part of the group, their own connection with trees and crops letting them get a taste for what the spirits felt.
"Only a sliver, but enough," the children's mother commented, happy that one outside her children had a strong connection with nature.
Pollux, the only son of Dionysus, also stepped forward, absentmindedly making strawberries grow around planks that made up the deck of the Big House.
Dionysus palmed, that was going to be a mess to deal with. Wonderful, but still, to have that kind of effect on his child…interesting.
Naruto finally exhaled, breaking the spell he didn't mean to have over the ones most affected by nature, opening his eyes and smiling at the squirrels that curled up in his hands. He looked at Grover, Billy and then Chiron before releasing his connection with nature, causing the animals to scatter, getting some surprised sounds from the campers as they moved out of the way of the retreating horde of forest critters.
"It's a stampede!" Hazel cried out.
"Run," Frank proclaimed, "Be free!"
His once again blue eyes landed on Grover again when the satyr started to speak.
"That...was amazing," said Grover, smiling at the blond and wiping away a tear.
"Whoa," sea child whistled, "Moved Grover to tears."
"Like we said," Hermes pointed out, "this is big."
"I never thought that a human could understand what satyrs do. Don't get me wrong, the campers try, but they're still humans. Thanks Naruto."
True, the campers did try since it was the satyrs that found them and would try to thank them by understanding their life style. SO this is what they wanted huh?
"No problem," said Naruto with a grin as he hopped down from his seat.
"Didn't I tell you?" Billy asked with a grin. "A real sage."
"Well, perhaps power wise, but there is more to being a sage than just power," said Chiron.
"Really?" Jason asked as Apollo nodded.
"Yep, Chiron is one of the very few and selected sages left, and those are the immortal ones!"
"What?" Naruto asked. The Toads said he was a sage. He ate all the bugs and everything that Ma cooked!
"They made my baby eat bugs!"
"Well, in certain cultures-"
"Be silent Apollo! Bugs! My boy! How dare they!"
...Well okay, maybe he didn't eat that stink bug but could you really blame him?
"A sage also needs knowledge, wisdom to guide others to follow their teachings." Chiron said. "Knowledge is one of the most important tools a sage has at his disposal."
Athena nodded to this, but she had little doubt that Naruto could easily learn, especially with those clones of his. She never had a sage of her blood before…the weaver liked the sound of this.
"But he's a legacy of Athena, no brainer there, Chiron." Grover said, getting the trainer to nod.
"Heh, I see what he did there." Frank snickered, getting Athena to glare at him.
"Yes, but a sage is so much more then 'knowledge', Grover. Knowledge is a broad spectrum after all," said Chiron.
"Oh yeah," Annabeth nodded.
He looked to Naruto with a smile. "Mr. Uzumaki, I believe you could be a true sage with the right help. I would like to offer you that help."
"Right on C, about time we had another sage around." Apollo cheered.
"Isn't that like playing favorites?" Percy asked, getting a snort from Hermes.
"No way, Chiron is keeping a dead art alive. Traditions need to be passed down and if Naruto can get others to learn as well? Then good for the us."
"What things would you teach me?" Naruto asked, curious.
"Different flora, proper applications of herbs, ways of the world as a sage would know it, philosophy and other things like that," said Chiron.
"On second thought, let Naruto learn away." Percy said, not even wanting to go near all that.
"I don't know about philosophy, but the satyrs can help with herbs, flora and fauna," said Grover, Billy nodding in agreement where he stood. Naruto looked behind him at the gathered satyrs, dryads and campers and then looked at Miu, who remained settled in her roost on his shoulder.
"All so eager." Artemis chuckled, it was an amusing sight to see.
She looked at him intently, her head inclining slightly in almost a nod. He looked back at the three looking at him expectantly with a smile.
"Well with all the eyes on me, how could I say no?" Naruto said with a small laugh.
"No without getting beaten." Dionysus stated with a gleam in his eyes.
He smiled softly when the trainer of heroes nodded and the satyrs high-fived, remembering the Old Man Sage. Yeah...he could see why ninshu was worth studying if it brought people together like this.
"This old sage guy sounds cool," Apollo grinned, maybe they would hear more about him.
Weeks passed and Naruto fell into a comfortable routine at camp. Taking care of his siblings was the first thing he focused on.
"I can feel is agony from here."
"No one asked you Artemis."
"I know, but someone had to say it Aphrodite. We know poor Piper has to deal with it."
Making his sisters train was no easy manner, he nearly pulled his hair out whenever they rebuffed his reasons as to why they should.
Piper palmed her face.
"See." Aphrodite just glared at the smug huntress.
When it finally came time to talk about his homeland and show them pictures that appeared in a small box at the Big House, Naruto found their motivation by showing pictures of his friends. He laughed when Gaara and Sasuke ended up on the "wall of hotties", poor bastards better never come visit or else they'll get swarmed.
"Well, that Gaara boy was very handsome." The lady of doves admitted.
"But why the emo guy?" Piper complained.
"Still handsome."
His brothers, on the other hand, were very easy to motivate. He simply said that it'll make them look a little less girly and they were all for it. They loved the way they looked, yes, but they weren't that narcissistic.
Ares laughed, less girly, ha!
The second thing he would focus on would be his lessons with Annabeth or Malcolm when Annabeth was checking on Percy's mother.
Percy smiled at his girlfriend, "Thanks for that."
"No problem Percy," the blonde smiled, "I needed some help too from her. It was good for both of us."
Naruto went with her once and felt horrible that something so bad could happen to a woman as kind as Sally Jackson. Learning about clear sighted mortals was a lot of fun and hearing stories about her life before meeting Percy's father, Poseidon, was genuinely interesting.
He made it a point to join Annabeth at least once a week when she went to visit, if only to get a better understanding of the life of someone connected to their world that wasn't a demigod.
Percy grumbled, okay, that was nice of him, the boy guessed. Maybe he was still irked by Apollo Naruto.
According to Grover and Chiron, it was a great exercise of his empathy and understanding of the human mind. While his understanding of Ancient Greek was coming along faster than the average demigod, his lessons with the satyrs about nature and the ways of the world today were going much better.
"Probably because it's better than books." Leo snickered.
"What was that, Leo?"
"Nothing Annabeth."
Though for some reason the satyrs grumbled at him after the dryads would stop by to ask him some questions.
"Even the nature spirits, oh I'm so proud of him!"
Except for Grover and Billy, they just laughed it off.
Finally came his training as a sage. Chiron took full advantage of the Kage Bunshin, putting clones to work at studying the texture and images of various flora that could be found around the world...or in Cabin Four's greenhouse, same difference.
Demeter nodded proudly at that.
Chiron said he was one of the quickest learners he had in the subject and Naruto wasn't sure if he was joking or not.
"Well, he is one of mine." Athena gloated.
"Yes Athena," Hades groaned, "We get it!"
He really felt some great respect for the original sages if they had to work so hard for what they did.
"It was funny to watch them to be honest," Apollo snickered.
Aside from those four primary parts of his time there, Naruto had a blast at the camp. He sparred with Clarisse and the rest of Cabin Five, quickly becoming a big source of entertainment in the camp by the size of the crowd, wondering how he would win or what jutsu he would use.
"Like a gladiator battle." Jason mused with a smirk, Dionysus brightened up at that thought.
It was only a matter of time before other cabins asked him for help, and that was when he met the members of Cabin Eleven, the children of Hermes and their 'guests', demigods under the age of thirteen that were unclaimed by their parents.
"You're welcome." Percy smirked as Hermes gave him a thumbs up.
Oh the fun he had with Hermes' kids, the pranks they devised...it was so fun.
"Great," Annabeth rubbed her temples, feeling the headache of her other from cross dimensions.
Miu quickly became a big mascot of the camp,
"As she should."
"Oh give it a rest Zeus!"
"Oh? Is someone sad that a horse isn't a mascot?"
"Pegasi are on the camp shirts!"
"Mascot."
Poseidon seemed to simmer at that while Zeus looked smug.
despite sticking to him every day, even going as far as to make a nest on the window closest to his bed. At least she didn't bite the other members of his cabin, unless they were being particularly 'rude'. She also helped Naruto claim the win for the Capture the Flag game between Cabin Ten and Cabin Nine. Though they were quickly rushed out of the forest for some reason after the game ended, particularly after there was a rusty sounding roar coming from the forest.
"You still played with that in there?" Leo asked Annabeth, who just nodded.
"Or course."
It was the sixteenth of December according to the modern calendar and Naruto was basking in the warm 'summer' heat, relaxing on the beach after another rather routine day.
"Oh oh!" Leo smiled, "We come in on that day!"
"Nice," Piper nodded, her welcome into Cabin Ten would no doubt be better with Naruto in charge.
Well, it was routine without Annabeth, who had been extremely jumpy for the past three days. She just up and left one day with Cabin Seven's chariot and Butch in tow, since he was one of the best Pegasi riders they had.
Leo snickered at that, ha, stupid Butch.
Let it be known that Naruto never felt more bad for another man when he discovered that. Being the son of the goddess of rainbows and being the best Pegasus riders? That was pretty much the exact opposite of masculine.
Ares gave a cruel laugh.
Though Naruto did his best to hide the pity he felt whenever he and Butch talked, trying to sympathize as a fellow sufferer.
No matter what he did, he could never get a unanimous vote to paint the interior of the cabin.
"Ha, its more girls than boys Naruto, pink will reign supreme in my cabin." Aphrodite smirked in victory, good girls.
Piper on the other hand gagged.
At least he got himself and his brothers some 'regular' sheets to sleep in. Even Drew agreed to that vote, so that said quite a bit of the impact he had there. She had even started to stop using her charmspeak on their siblings, so progress was being made.
"Amazing, I didn't think rehabilitation was possible for her." Piper said in shock, getting her mother to pout.
"Piper, she wasn't that bad."
Annabeth and Piper snorted at that.
That was a good thing, considering Naruto was getting tired of stopping her charmed victims from doing whatever chore she had told them to do for her.
"Know my pain." Piper groaned.
He would retaliate by making Drew take the garbage out and wear the Shoes of Shame or whatever the hell they were called. It was stupid, but effective.
Piper broke out into fits of laughter along with Annabeth as Aphrodite ashened at the notion, oh her poor child!
So there he was, playing fetch with Miu on the beach that was within the camp borders. It was a spur of the moment decision to teach Miu to play fetch, and it was even easier than Naruto anticipated. It quickly became Miu's favorite game, catching whatever Naruto threw and bringing it back in her talons, dropping it in his hand and then landing on his shoulder or at his side.
"A boy and his eagle." Thalia mock wept. Zeus gave her a look, it was a beautiful scene thank you very much.
Considering how he was lounging on the beach, she decided to land next to him, which he was grateful for. Miu's talons were sharp.
"Alright, catch it before it hits the water Miu and you get a treat," said Naruto, holding up a stick and tossing it to the side as hard as he could, making the stick go flying. Miu released a cry and flapped her wings to get off of the ground before shooting after it. She snatched it seconds before it touched the water, but dropped it and swiftly returned to Naruto's shoulder as he sat up. His eyes were on the falling object heading for the beach.
Apollo gave Annabeth a look, "Seriously, you kids."
"Sorry." The blonde amended.
"Tell my kids that."
He grabbed his staff buried in the ground next to him and got to his feet, separating it and preparing himself for a fight while Cabin Seven came to the beach with their bows at the ready.
The object turned out to be Butch and Annabeth in Cabin Seven's now destroyed chariot, their Pegasi already galloping for the stables while Butch chased after them. Will Solace, the counselor of Cabin Seven and a very good medic Naruto met after inquiring about modern medicine
"Good ol' Will," Apollo grinned.
– considering all he knew about was medical jutsu, and that was limited – lowered his bow as Annabeth walked forward with three other teens around her age.
"Annabeth, come on, I said you could borrow the chariot, not destroy it!"
"Yeah Annabeth!"
"Shut up Leo!"
"Will I'm sorry, but it was an emergency. I'll get it fixed."
Naruto ignored their conversation, looking over the newcomers with interest as he locked his staff back into place. One was a teen nearly as tall and as built as he was, blond much like himself, but with electric blue eyes that had a look of confusion and wary in them.
"This is Jason," Leo said in a deep voice, "I'm in enemy territory."
Jason smacked him in the arm, but had an amused smile on his face.
Next to him was a girl of what he was told to be Native American descent, she was pretty, arguably as pretty as his sisters making Naruto wonder if she was one.
"I am and I have an awesome brother, sweet~" Piper smirked, oh man, her other was so lucky!
And finally came the short teen – and there was sympathy from Naruto, being the runt of the class himself
"Thanks bro."
– with tanned skin, and features much like Naruto's friends in Cabin Eleven, aside from the curly dark hair.
"Wrong guess, wait for it." Leo smirked and laughed.
And the fiery hammer above his head
"There it is! Thanks dad."
"Meh, no problem."
...Huh, so he had a new step-brother.
Cool.
"No, it's hot."
"Lame, Leo."
"Shush Jason, you're ruining my moment."