Ninja of Eternity: Chapter 3
In his entire life, Percy Jackson only hated three things with the ferocity and passion of a thousand suns. One of them was that lazy fat-ass boyfriend his mom had before she found Paul and the others were monsters and the odd titan that was out for his blood.
In fact the situation he was in right now only reminded him to put down another tick on why he hated the Titan army.
Percy groaned as he was chased through the halls of yet another high school by yet another pair of enormous giant hulking bulls with giant arms smashing everything in their paths.
(Just imagine a minotaur.)
Round the corner. Down the stairs. Whoops, there goes chemistry 103 and physics 23, ah shucks the stairwells collapsed.
Yes, chaos and devastation are two daily occurrences in Percy Jackson's life. He sprinted out of the wrecked science block and into the sports shed. Finally, some privacy!
He reached into his pocket and uncapped his sword, Riptide.
The celestial bronze materialized into his hand in an instant, turning around to face the bulls that had stalked and followed him into the shed. He readied his stance and with the adrenaline coursing through his body and the sword in his hand, Percy Jackson leapt into battle once more with a savage battle cry.
Naruto stopped outside this "High School" and inspected what would have been a perfectly normal environment if it were not for the towering column of smoke that rose menacingly over the property. Screams of fear and terror issued form the students as they ran from what appeared to be a rampaging fire from the Science department.
"We need to go find Percy, before it gets any worse!"
"What makes you think it will get any worse?" Naruto answered calmly, not recognising the difference in power between himself and his companion.
"He might die in there..." Annabeth Chase murmured, her blonde hair whipping in the windy climate, distress obvious in her voice. Naruto sighed and looked dead straight through the school entrance, his ears and nose picking up the sounds and smells of fighting despite the piercing screams and the harsh smell of burning.
Without a prompt or warning he seemed to vanish from reality, his image simply fading away with the wind.
Annabeth could only gape in amazement and anger as she was left behind.
Wild green eyes darting left and right, searching for an opening in the bulls defences. Widening and quickly relaying information quickly to the head just in time to dodge a feral swipe to his head. In fights there was no such thing as hesitation. One millisecond could mean the difference between life and death, and dying was not something Percy had on his top What-I-Want-To-Do-List.
Ignoring his opponents dual grunts and snorts of annoyance at failing to decapitate their enemy, the bulls charged at him, seemingly morphing the back of the shed from reality to fantasy.
'Note to self: Avoid stampeding bulls' He thought internally, ending up like the wall looked extremely painful and obviously fatal. Without wasting even the smallest amount of time, Percy rushed behind the pair of slightly winded bulls and sent two horizontal slashes across the pairs' backs.
A grunt of pain resonates from the bulls but one quickly recovers from the staggering blow and sends a haymaker straight into the Half-bloods waiting sword.
His guard was perfect, his stance was ideal, his judge of strength? Incorrect.
The blows sheer force turned into pure kinetic energy and sent the unlucky teenager straight back into the ruined shed. Pain immediately stabbed through his back and arms, the shock flinging his sword hilt deep into the concrete ground.
His sword.
It was stuck.
As cliché as it sounds, Percy Jackson was seeing stars.
He could only vaguely make out the two hulking shapes of the bulls readying themselves for one last charge that would no doubt send him straight to Hades. As the bulls grinded their hoofs along the concrete sending sparks showering into the air, Percy could only think his sombre and final thoughts before his untimely end.
'What a way to go. Death by stupid bulls.'
So as Percy was ready to die, he could only watch as the bulls launched themselves at him with frightening speed, horns pointed dead ahead at the target (him) that was about to be mutilated and destroyed.
Then they stopped.
It seemed incredible as it seemed time itself warped around the bulls and froze them.
'Kronos?'
Was his first thought, but the titan lord was still locked away, healing and not even close to a fraction of his power. He watched silently as lines of white hot flame sliced across the bulls bodies in a flash, incinerating the two animals from existence.
As his vision wavered and flickered he observed a blurry blonde haired man materialize in front of him. No words were spoken as he felt himself roughly picked up by one hand and fainted as he became unconcious, his entire world vanishing into a whirling, speeding tunnel of wind.
The first thing Percy Jackson heard when he came to was the familiar sight of Annabeth Chase scolding someone in a dense forest. Annabeth and the lush wilderness were all very recognizable, but the person in question however was someone he had never seen before.
Bright yellow hair and shocking blue eyes were the first thing he saw, six whisker like scars marked his cheeks and his impassive expression and intense stare evenly matched Annabeth angry and ferocious look.
"You could have killed him!"
"I didn't know."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T KNOW?"
"I simply extracted the boy as fast as possible, as per your request."
"Two monsters just attempted to kill him! His injured body obviously can't possibly be durable enough to handle that ridiculous speed you were going!"
The argument seemed to be going nowhere. Annabeth's loud angry voice and furious stormy grey eyes seemingly grinding against the unknown man's cool exterior. He seemed to give up and shook his head softly before he stood up and walked evenly and calmly away into the forest.
"Wha-"
Percy's cracked voice choked through the clearing and startled Annabeth from her stupor.
"Are you alright Percy?"
Her worry-filled grey eyes stared down upon Percy's injured frame.
"Wh-Who? What?"
The questions barely made it out of Percy's exhausted body, and sent shudders of pain through his body in a wave of nauseating throbs. Annabeth placed a hand over his mouth to prevent him from talking further.
"That man is Naruto. I'm not sure where he came from or who sired him, I just know he can see very clearly through the mist. All Chiron told me to do was to watch him carefully and pick you up. The most important thing is that we get you back to camp. You've got a few broken bones but I'm sure Chiron will be able to fix you up later." Annabeth paused in her explanation. "Just go back to sleep. We'll be at camp the next time you wake up."
So without any further ado, Percy's eyes drooped shut and his mind sunk into blissful unconsciousness once again.
Naruto watched a small stream chirp and splash as it travelled at a quick pace across the wilderness. The serene and elegant moonlight reflected off the smooth water, and sent luminescent lights dancing around the small clearing he stood in.
" I hope you have a good way of explaining the gifts I bestowed upon you Naruto. These so called "Half-Bloods" will not take kindly that they are housing a demonic god of sorts."
The statement rung inside his mind with a dark tone, although Kyuubi's last words were also accompanied by a soft snicker from the giant fox. Naruto sighed at the warning, he knew the powers he had displayed would no doubt be told to the head of the camp before it would be passed on to the gods. (Or perhaps they already knew about it beforehand?)
Perhaps the best way was to simply hide Kyuubi's power and explain the elemental manipulation as a technique from long ago. Technically it was the truth, but only after leaving out the fact that after so long practicing his Jutsuus he had long lost the need for any hand seals, his body already learning the correct way to manipulate chakra to use it in any shape or form.
Having a demon to teach you and upgrade your body was just one of the few perks of being a jinchuuriki.
A crackle of twigs and dried leaves caused a quickly thrown glance behind his back. Annabeth stood behind Naruto with a look of intense curiosity.
"How do you move so fast?"
Naruto exhaled with annoyance. This feat would have been so simple to answer back when he was a ninja, simply push chakra to your limbs to increase your acceleration, strength and endurance. Sadly he had to choose his words and answers carefully in this world, or else suspicion would instantly arise.
'Guess it's the same everywhere, different always means dangerous in some shape or form.'
"You are a smart girl Annabeth Chase. You were born with genius and knowledge, being a child of this...Athena. Just like yourself, I was born with this ability, I do not know how to teach it, but I simply know how to do it myself."
Annabeth seemed to accept the answer, my powers no doubt reminding her of people with strange abilities that she herself were familiar with. She looked at me once more before beginning the walk back to her unconscious friend.
"We leave in 10 minutes." Was all that was said before she was blocked by the encroaching branches.
Naruto could easily sense she was a thinker and not a fighter. Just like that Percy boy was a brawl over brains kind of fighter.
Kind of like how he used to be.
However if one of the most potent Half-bloods in existance was this weak, and the son of one of the "Big Three" no less, he wondered how strong a god could truly be.
He looked around the moonlit clearing for the last time that night before gracefully following his companion, leaving the area.
Sorry about the long wait. I was on holiday and did not have any access to my laptop to update this story. Guys ever go to Japan/ Epic place there. Epic people. Epic places. Epic everything really. Epic haunted hospital too, but that is another story.
I hope you enjoyed this and the semi-fight scene I've ever written, so I really need your feedback on this. How am I going to get better if you don't tell me whats wrong?
I'm still thinking about the complete powers for Naruto so If you have a idea, tell me in your review and I'll put it in a poll next chapter or so.
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