Naruto the Demi-Deity
Chapter 6
Diana smiled as her husband went off to look around New Rome. She was truly happy to be married and even happier to have the chance to create a family with him.
He truly was the only man that she could ever see herself being with. She smiled as she started to remember how she fell in love.
Zoe chuckled as she saw her Mistress gain her daydreaming look. Over the many years of watching Naruto's life with her she knew that look. Zoe rolled her eyes and started leading her Mistress as she undoubtedly went to her memories.
-Flashback to a few years after Artemis agreed to Hera's deal-
Artemis grumbled as she set in her tent. She had agreed to allow Hera, in her mortal form, to be able to carry a child in return her hunter's would be protected from Aphrodite's domain. Though Hera had sneaked in a part about marrying her son, if it was a male or gain a hunter if it was a female.
That was nearly five years ago but she still felt like she might regret it. She didn't want some vile man being her fiancé.
She only agreed to it as her father had started bothering her about marrying, even if he knew her oath. Her father was bipolar sometimes she swore. One second he is glad she stays a virgin but then he demands grandchildren.
At least this way it might stop him from his demands.
"Did you really have to agree to possibly being engaged to a man?" Zoe, her most loyal and closest hunter. She was her lieutenant and at times a daughter and a best friend to her.
Artemis nodded "Yes, Aphrodite has recently been trying too hard to tempt your fellow hunters. And even if he is a male, I don't have to marry him per say, just keep him as a fiancé and I can always just chain him up" she says as Zoe chuckled.
"So why don't we see what the man is up to?" Zoe asked as Artemis snapped her fingers and an Iris message appeared before them. She would explain it to the fellow hunters later but for now it would be just her and Zoe.
Artemis frowned as she saw the little blonde boy running from a mob. He looked terrified and afraid. "Demon?" she said confused as she could hear the mob yelling that at the small boy.
He had blonde spikey hair and three whisker marks on each cheek. He wore a tattered white shirt and orange shorts with blue sandals.
His eyes were a dazzling blue that reminded her of the clear ocean back when the ocean was pure and clear.
She frowned until she heard someone behind her "My poor Sochi, Minato just had to seal the nine tails in his own son".
Artemis jumped and turned around to see Hera "What are you doing here? I thought you were on vacation in that realm with your son?" she asked confused.
Hera frowned "That was indeed the plan but everything went badly once that damnable masked man arrived and released the nine tails and it killed my mortal persona sending me back to here" she said as she reached her hand out to the Iris message. "My darling Sochi shouldn't be hated like this for holding that demon back" she said with a frown.
"He holds the nine tails now? And they hate him for it?" Artemis asked a bit annoyed. Mortals always shunned and hated what they could not understand.
Hera nodded "Yes, though I really do wish he survives through it all. He is such a sweet and lovely boy" she says with a sad frown as she walks off.
Artemis continued to watch the boy evade the mob.
Over the years she would spend her time whenever she had it to catch up on Naruto's life. She saw Naruto grow and evolve. She saw him make friends.
She was a bit pissed at how his teacher neglected teaching him and how his next teacher was a massive pervert.
She thanked her lucky stars that he wasn't a pervert. If anything he punished perverts with that transformation technique of his, normally she would have smote him for that but she had to remember that since ancient times females used their bodies for distractions and the fact he only used it to weed out perverts.
She grew sad when people close to him died. She didn't know why but she was actually beginning to like the hyperactive boy.
She truly fell for him once he fought that the so called god named Pain.
"He is that self-sacrificing for those close to him. Willing to go through all that to save his friend" she said with a frown as he fought the man in the ruins of his village. She grew worried once he went into a rage creating his six tailed form and eventual eight tailed form as he started mauling the man.
"He also has some natural charisma to him, getting enemies to join his side" she said as she watched him convince the man to revive all he killed. He chose to give up a chance at getting revenge on the man that killed someone close to him to save those lost in the battle.
"Wow, that is amazing" Phoebe said as the other hunters nodded along.
She had introduced Naruto to the hunters a few years ago, around the time he fought that traitor Sasuke in the Valley of End. They were on edge about it until she showed them his life. Some were still on edge but he was slowly getting accepted.
"He has a very far way before he deserves you Milady" another hunter grumbles.
Artemis nods "Yes but so far from what we have seen he is miles better than the men of this realm. And he seems very sweet" she says until she realizes she said it aloud and hide behind her hair making some of the girls giggle.
But the real moment she realized her budding feelings for him was during the Fourth Shinobi war. A war set upon because a madman wanted to steal the Bijuu and rule the realm.
Naruto, teaming up with the nine tailed beast, named Kurama to fight two madmen.
She felt her heart break once Kurama was ripped out of him and his heart stopped. Tears started to spill from her as Zoe hugged her mistress.
She had never seen Artemis like this, not even with Orion though that was to be expected considering that vile man tried to rape some of their hunters.
Artemis had grown to have feelings for the boy from watching him grow and become a man truly deserving of her, but now he was dead. She got up to go to her tent when her hunter's gasped.
"Milady! He's alive!" Zoe yells making her turn around quickly and grew a happy smile.
Her fiancé was alive and back even stronger. She saw him crush this 'Rabbit Goddess' with a barrage of his Rasenshurikens.
She stared in awe at what she had just seen. He fiancé defeated a primordial god and now held all of the fractions of it inside him.
"I think he definitely deserves me" she says as everyone nods with a smile.
~Flashback End~
"Come on Milady, we need to get going" Zoe says snapping Diana out of her stupor.
She blushed a bit and nodded "Yes, lets" she says as they walk off.
-Naruto-
Naruto was heavily impressed by New Rome and Camp Jupiter. Romans were more bound together than the Greeks but Greeks were powerhouses in it of themselves. New Rome had linger life spans.
He got to see all of New Rome, the weird statue god Terminus had tried to get him to leave his weapons but he didn't know all of his were sealed away.
He loved the family aspect of it all, legacies meaning children of original demigods. He hated to see kids die. The whole ghost thing weirded him out but he left them alone after one yelled at him, he of course blew him away with a little wind manipulation much to Jason's amusement.
He also liked Jason, he was respectful yet knew how to calm down. He seemed to be respected by all and looked up to. He didn't have his father's arrogance or paranoia but he chalked that up to the Greek aspect.
The arrived at the coliseum to see the huntresses and Diana standing there. "Ah good, the tour is done" she says with a smile "and Grace I am glad to see the upkeep of my temple is well done" she says eliciting a bow from Jason.
Naruto turns to Diana "Before anything else I wanna see how good Jason is, a little friendly battle will help. I'll even not use my Rasengan or gauntlets, only a pair of swords" he says getting a shocked look from all and a proud look from Jason.
"I would be honored to spar with you Lord Naruto" he says making Naruto frown but Diana sends him a look telling him not to correct him. Maybe it was a Roman thing?
Naruto nods "We can do it now or after dinner" he says pulling out a scroll.
Jason nods "I would like to do it now if that is fine with Lady Diana?" he asks in a respectful tone.
Diana nods "Yes it is fine as I do not believe I know the blade inside that scroll" she says smiling at Naruto.
Naruto nods and unseals the blades to show two katanas with two fang like protrusions on the front and back of the blade with golden hilts wrapped in blue cloth. Naruto takes test swings of the blade making lightning course from them and burst to life "Meet the two blades named Kiba, the twin lightning fangs. Testing them against a son of Jupiter is the best way to see how they are" he says with a smile.
Jason stares in admiration and takes out a coin to flip it. As it lands in his hand it turns into a Roman long sword made of imperial gold. "Lighting against a son of Jupiter is interesting" he says as he dons his armor.
Naruto nods "True which is why I wish to test it against real lightning, I won't use Rasengans or many jutsus but lightning ones are okay and so are my beasts abilities" he says charging the blades with lightning chakra and brings sand around him.
They stare at each other before charging. Jason lashes with controlled and powerful slashes. As Naruto blocked them he could tell they he had skill wielding this sword and was trained greatly. Naruto hooks the fangs under his blade and twists sending it away from him, letting him charge at Jason, hitting him with the butt of his sword.
Once Jason corrects himself he sends a powerful blast at Naruto.
Once the smoke clears it shows Naruto unscathed with his feet up to his ankles wrapped in sand "I grounded myself so the lighting went right through me without harm" he says steam rolls off him. He sends the sand away and darts at Jason using Steam release to propel him.
Jason blocks just in time but is sent back by the force of the blow. As he flies 2 Naruto clones kick him upwards "U!", one sends him up "Zu!", three clones hit him father "Ma!", one more punches him up to the original "Ki!", then the original kicks him down worth enough force not to actually break anything but to make an indent "Uzumaki Naruto Barrage!" he yells out as Jason crashes down into the ground.
All of the legions were watching in amazement of the Prince of Rome as he could literally clone himself and become a one man legion. They were also amazed at how their praetor was standing up to him.
Jason gets up shakily as lightning courses across his body. He wipes some blood from his lips and smiles at Naruto "Nice one but let's see if you can handle a storm" he says as the winds pick up and the sky darkens. Lightning surges through the sky.
'Hmmm like Sasuke's Kirin but faster it seems' he thinks to himself with a smile.
Jason charges at him, speed being enhanced by lightning as he slashes at Naruto with new found strength. Naruto struggles to block all the swings and smiles as lightning charges towards Jason, hitting his blade as he strikes down sending all the lightning crashing down on Naruto erupting in a massive explosion that Diana had to shield the others from.
As the smoke clears Jason is standing barely as he used his sword to hold himself up. Naruto on the other hand was different as a dark brown octopus tentacle was wrapped around him. It uncurled to show Naruto smiling proudly "Bravo Jason, you made me bring out Gyuki's impenetrable hide" he says drawing back in the tentacle.
Jason looks confused "What?" he says as he straightens up.
Naruto nods "Well Gyuki is the eight tailed beast, one of the nine sealed inside me and his hide completely negates lightning and is one of the toughest materials to cut" he says walking to Jason "and for that you pass my test"
Jason looks even more confused "Test?"
Naruto sighs and nods again "Yes you see Kiba is a set of seven blades, two of which I keep for myself leaving five to give away to those worthy. Kubutowari is in the possession of Allison over there" he points to her making her smile "and I wanted to see if the son of Jupiter would match with Kiba".
Jason looks in shock as do the others "While this isn't the only lightning blade I have it is the only one of the set of seven" he says twirling Kiba around in his hands. "So Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, praetor of Camp Jupiter do you accept the Kiba blades. To use them to protect those closest to you?" he asks as he creates a clone next to him.
Jason nods and bows "I accept and swear to use them to protect Rome" he says closing his eyes.
Naruto nods and looks to Diana who nods at him but has a look that wants to ask him of his other blades. Naruto would cross that bridge later.
Naruto writes up seals on Jason's wrists and seals the blades in there. Jason looks confused "Wipe your blood across the seals and the blades will appear and press the bottom of the hilts to the seals to reseal them, use them well and train to master them" he says as he walks towards Diana and the huntresses.
"Are you sure you trust him with those blades? They seem mighty powerful Naruto" Allison says looking back at Jason who was testing them out.
Naruto nods "Yes, not like those were the strongest lightning blade I have nor are they the most versatile" he says ruffling her hair.
Diana looks to him "Are you planning to give any hunters the blades?" she asks with a frown, she knew she had no power to force him to give the blades away but she still hoped the hunters would use them.
Naruto nods "Yes Nuibari and Hiramekarei will be going to two hunters but Shibuki is very difficult to handle so I'm not sure. I might even give away Kubikiribocho if I find someone truly worthy" he says with a smile.
"When are you planning to?" she asks happy for the fact.
Naruto chuckles and holds her hand "Soon dear, just need to train them a bit more. Give it a week or two" he says as Jason calls for dinner and they lead them to the dining pavilion.
Dinner went nicely. Everyone was enjoying themselves. Naruto offered training to some campers.
He grew fond of Hazel and Frank. Hazel had golden eyes and cinnamon brown curly hair with a dark skin tone. He could feel a power feeling similar to Hades rolling off her and found out who her father was, Pluto the Roman aspect of Hades. She acted afraid that he would tell others but assured her that he wouldn't, seeing as she was a kind girl he offered to train her.
Frank was a Chinese boy, slightly pudgy with short black hair and brown eyes a Son of Mars, the Roman aspect of Ares but didn't act like any son of Ares he had met. He favored the bow and arrow so he offered to train him a bit at it.
Octavian had been a pest and Naruto was tempted to string him up using Nuibari. The boy was dead set on making an accurate prediction. He tried saying he was top of his class but he denied saying he was dead last but only recently grew the strongest of his previous realm. After him mentioning his father he wrapped him in sand and scared the boy.
-Week Later-
Naruto had a good week. Training with Hazel and Frank went great. He even trained more with Jason and actually enjoyed training them all.
Octavian tried getting him to train him but Naruto refused every single time. The boy just wanted power to get people to follow him. He'd have to warn Apollo of it.
He focused mostly on the hunters though as they were his adopted daughters in his mind. He had gotten them all to master the Rasengan which made him proud of them. He next had them work on the Hiraishin which made Diana greatly shocked that he was trusting them with his father's technique. The hunters were making slow progress but he assured them that was completely normal.
He current stood in front Diana, Zoe and Phoebe who was a daughter of Ares but had hated her father. She was strong and head strong but knew when to follow orders, which most children of Ares didn't know how to do.
"So what have you called for us three for?" Diana asks confused.
Naruto smiles "You three are the three I have chosen for three of the set of seven" he says getting a shocked face from the three women. "Diana since I trust you and you are my wife I want to give you Kubikiribocho, Zoe you would do best with Nuibari since you are agile and great at traps and Phoebe with your strength you could wield Hiramekarei with some mastery" he says unsealing the blades.
Kubikiribocho was a six foot long butcher knife with a circular opening on the blade. Its metal was a mix of bronze, gold and steel with a foot long handle.
Nuibari was a narrow long sword that resembled a needle made of bronze, gold and steel, at the bottom of the hilt was a foot long wire with a tag at the end of it.
Hiramekarei was a wide, flat blade with two curved indentations near its base creating a cross guard. It too was made of gold, bronze and steel. It bore two handles, one longer than the other being connected to each other by a small length cord.
"Now Diana I know could defeat me easily so she doesn't need to fight me but I wish to see how you two fare against me wielding the swords he says tossing them to the girls. Zoe catches hers easily but Phoebe struggles a bit before using chakra to enhance her strength. "Now come at me with the extent to kill" he says drawing his mother's spear.
The girls look to Diana who nodded as she picked up Kubikiribocho, giving her husband a kind smile.
Zoe dashes at Naruto with chakra enhanced speed using Nuibari as a spear as Phoebe charges him with the large sword. Naruto blocks Zoe's thrust and jumps over Phoebe's slash. 'They don't have much skill but they understand the basics of using the swords' he thinks to himself as he thrusts the spear at Zoe only for wire to wrap around it and pull it away.
'Damn, she even was able to draw out Nuibari's thread' he thinks as he jumps over a long wave of chakra. He was genuinely surprised they were getting the hang of the two blades this easily. He dodged the two girls enough, they had the hang of offence but let's see about defense.
He flashed to his spear and spun around sending a blade of wind chakra at the girls. Phoebe used Hiramekarei to crash down on the blade destroying it as Zoe dashed at him again. He ducked under her thrust and kicked up at the blade sending it up to the air as he spun around and thrust his spear, sending the blade portion through the hole in Hiramekarei. He twisted his spear sending the blade around and he stabbed his spear in the ground, making Hiramekarei impossible to move as his spear now weighed a ton due to the gravity seal.
He turned around to dodge Nuibari as it was shot from the sky down at him. He turned to see Zoe manipulating the thread of Nuibari. He smirked and grabbed Nuibari and pulled, sending Zoe flying towards him. He caught her and bound her in its wires.
He turns to Diana "They did way better than I ever could've thought, they pass" he says unbinding Hiramekarei and untying Zoe. He smiled to them both. "Great job at understanding the blades in such short time. You two will make masters quickly" he says handing them the blades for them to seal them up.
Diana walked to him and hugged him "Thank you for that dear and thank you for trusting me with Zabuza's blade" she says kissing his cheek.
Naruto smiles and nods "You are my wife, I trust you with my life and I know you will do great with the blade" he says as the head back to her temple.
They stayed another few days band was about to leave when his mother appeared before him. She smiled at him and gave him a hug "Hello there Sochi" she says kindly, seems like she was still his mother even in this form.
"Hi mom what are you doing here?" he asks confused.
Juno giggles "I just need to tell you that you need to wait longer before becoming a god, the Fates warned me that something might happen where you will be needed in a quest of some kind" she says ending with a frown.
He looks confused at her but shrugs "Oh well, not in any rush" he says making his mom smile.
She nods "I'm glad and also thank you for giving Kiba to Jason, he will benefit greatly from them and you have gotten in Jupiter's favor" she says with a smile. Juno then hugs her son goodbye and flashes away.
As they leave camp and head towards a site for the hunters camp Diana returns to Artemis and smiles at him "It is so good to be back in my Greek form, my roman form was too forward" she says blushing darkly which made Naruto laugh.
"Oh it is okay dear all you would do is initiate the kiss" he says which made her blush more, which made several hunters giggle. Even after they have made love she was still shy about public displays of affection.
She smiled as she led her hunters and husband off to their next camp site. She was interrupted from her thoughts by a buzzard hawk, one of her sacred birds screeching and landing on her shoulder.
She placed her hand on the birds head to read its thoughts. She frowned and nodded to the bird as it flew off. She turned to her hunters "We have a new target to hunt. A Manticore has showed himself in Maine, a wonderful first hunt for my husband to take part of" she said as the hunters nodded in excitement.
Naruto chuckled "Well I'm all for it, we can even travel there faster on your wolves" he said as they all looked excited and started getting everything set up.
He chose to use Chomei's wings as they made their way to Maine, fighting a Manticore would definitely be interesting.
-Chapter End-
You all got to see Artemis falling for Naruto. After watching him his whole life she realized how kind and great Naruto is, unlike the disgusting men in her world or even his. She fully realized it when he died for a bit during the Fourth Shinobi War.
Yes I made Naruto use Kiba against Jason again but this time he used more abilities and even gave them to Jason. In Son of the Queen he will gain Nuibari instead.
I also gave away some other swords of his, I felt they deserved them.
Plus yes the Third book is happening next. And Naruto being protective of his wife who got kidnapped will be fun to write
Well I hope you all liked this chapter
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