Hey everyone Shadow12 here with a new chap. Hope everyone liked the last because this one has a big fight in it.
To the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and Percy Jackson, and neither does shinnagami. If either of us really owned Naruto or Percy Jackson this story would already be on TV.
Chapter 7: Being claimed and fighting a god.
"D-Dad, M-Mom?"
As soon as those words left his mouth everyone turned toward Naruto, shocked.
Hades turned to where he heard the voice of his son to see him staring at them with a shocked expression, and he gained a kind smile, "yes Naruto its us." he said softly.
Everyone stared at them all in shocked silence; the questions running through their minds went like this: Hades is Naruto's father? One of the Big Three? And just who was this woman with him?
When Kushina began to walk to Naruto everyone parted so she could go through unimpeded.
When she got to him she looked at him with a small smile on her face. Naruto stared at his mother trembling.
"K-Kaa-san?" Naruto elementally asked in a horse whisper, Kushina's smile widened and she nodded, "yes Sochi-kun it's me." she said happy tears in her eyes at seeing her son for the first time in four years (viewing him in the underworld doesn't count).
Naruto did something that not only shocked everyone but brought them happy smiles as well; he wrapped Kushina in his arms and started to cry in joy.
"I-it's really y-you!" Naruto cried happily into Kushina's shoulder and held her tight. She just held her son in her arms as happy tears streamed down her face.
Hades did nothing but watch as his son let his joy out at finally meeting his birth mother. He heard someone coming up to him from behind and turned to see Chiron there, staring at him curiously.
"Yes?" he asked, gaining a frown from the centaur.
"So your Naruto's father?" Chiron asked. Hades nodded looking back to his son and wife with a small smile.
"Yes I am." He said with no hint of remorse.
"I had wondered." Was all Chiron said as he and everyone else watched the bitter sweet scene before them.
"Wondered what?" Hades asked, not looking away from his family.
"If you were his father."
"And why is that?" Hades said, turning his head to the horse man with a small glare.
Chiron flinched at the look but explained, "Because the gods hadn't seen you for years before they sealed the realm of ninja, and when they did there were massive amounts of power floating around the village of konoha at the time."
Hades growled as when he heard the village Naruto was born in, "First, don't ever say that villages name around me and second you know what I sealed into Naruto the day he was born right?" he ordered then asked.
Chiron nodded.
Hades sighed, "most of the power around the area that night was Kyuubi's, but…."
Chiron looked confused as the death god trailed off and looked at the Centaur with a serious expression. His eyes widened when the rest of what the god was trying to say clicked into place. "You don't mean you had to…" he trailed as Hades nodded.
"Yes, I had to fuse some of my own powers into the seal to make sure she was properly sealed into Naruto." Hades revealed before he turned and walked towards his family.
As this had been going on Naruto had done nothing but cry into his mothers shoulder, he kept muttering, "you're really here." Again and again, and Kushina had just held him tight whispering "yes Naruto Kaa-san is here, let it out; let it all out."
Naruto pulled back from his mother to just stare at her, tears still pouring from his eyes. He was about to say something when he heard a small cough just to his left. He turned and saw his father standing there a small smile on his face.
Naruto did nothing other than stair at him, before his head lowered and his shoulders began to shake.
Hades, seeing this, approached slowly, "Naruto? Are you o-" he started to ask but was cut off when something impacted his gut and was sent flying. Hades landed on his back, a few feet away and clutching his stomach as he struggled to catch his breath; all of this courtesy of a gravity enhanced punch.
He looked up from his position on the ground to see that Naruto had a fist extended to where his stomach had been and he was looking at him with an expression of pure rage. "N-Naruto?" he gasped out in surprise, Kushina could only shake her head sadly. She knew that Naruto could possibly react this way at seeing Hades. The other campers could only stare in utter shock and amazement at what Naruto had dared to do.
Slowly, ever so slowly, everyone became aware of the haggard breathing coming from the blonde as he opened his mouth to speak, "You-you-you SON OF A BITCH!" Naruto shouted, further shocking everyone, "DO YOU KNOW WHAT MY LIFE HAS BEEN LIKE BECAUSE OF YOU?" he continued to shout, confusing the campers.
"Naruto, I'm sorry for-" Hades tried as he got up, but Naruto would have none of it.
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT GOD FOSAKEN VILLAGE DID TO ME?"He shouted.
"Naruto I really am so-" Hades tried again, but by now Naruto was on a roll, tears of anger now falling from his eyes as he continued to reveal just what he had gone through in his life.
"I WAS BEATEN! PUNCHED! KICKED! STABBED! BURNED! DENIED FOOD AND A HELL OF A LOT OF OTHER THINGS BY THE TIME I HAD TURNED THREE! THREE DAMN IT THREE! AND IT'S ALL YOUR FALT!"
Now the campers had one thing on their minds; 'just what did Hades do to him?'
Inside the mindscape and amulet respectively Helena and Thalia both thought, 'Naruto-kun' at the same time, one in hurt and sadness because she had played a major part in his pain, and the other in surprised wonder about how he could still be sane after all that.
Naruto paused to breath here, and then continued in a much lower tone, "you wanted that village to see me as a hero right? Than tell me, why did they do all that to me? Why did they make my life a living hell? Why would a three-year-old consider killing himself just to escape it all?" he asked, much to the horror of everyone listening, especially when they heard the last admission.
"BECAUSE YOU SEALED HER INTO ME! YOU SEALED THE MONSTER THAT ATTACKED THEM INTO ME THE VERY NIGHT I WAS BORN! YOU SEALED THE KYUUBI INTO ME YOU BASTARD!"
The campers gasped, they knew of the legendary tailed beasts but they thought that the creatures were only myths!
Hades stared at his son sadly as he fought off the urge to run and hide from those hate filled and accusing eyes Naruto had directed at him. "Yes Naruto I did." He admitted with a sad nod, his admission shocked the campers even further.
"Why?" Naruto whispered. He knew why, he had read and re-read Hades letters to him mnore than once, but he still wanted to hear it from the man himself. He wanted to hear the admission, the regret, the sadness from Hades as he said it.
"I'll admit I did it, I'll even shout it from the tallest peak on Olympus if I had to Naruto. I am not the type to force others to do what I cannot do myself; I sealed her into you because I had no other choice. Ask yourself this, could you honestly ask a family to give up their child when you are not willing to do so in return?"
Naruto shook his head still glaring at his farther and Hades nodded to him, "exactly you couldn't. So do you really think that I would do that?" he asked and again Naruto shook his head.
"No, even if you are a god you wouldn't." he said softly as his anger finally faded away to once again show his sorrow.
Hades smiled softly as he saw his son's anger vanish. "Naruto." he said softly.
The now silenced camp watched as Hades slowly walked up to his son and gently brought him into an embrace.
"I'm sorry for what I had to do to you my son. But you have to understand if I had known what the village would do to you as a result of my actions I would have never have sealed Helena into you, even now I wish I hadn't, but I was a fool and thought that people would understand you were only the jailer."
Naruto nodded as he brought his arms up and wrapped them around his father, "I-I understand…father." he said quietly.
Kushina and everyone watching gained a small smile, happy to see that father and son had made up. However the moment was interrupted by a very snide voice, "Well isn't this all sweet and happy…Blah! Makes me sick!"
Everyone turned to see who had spoken and froze in shock.
Ares god of war was standing behind the crowd, leaning on his sword.
The entire camp was stunned; not one but two gods at camp? They had never had a situation like this before.
Hades narrowed his eyes at the man standing before them, "Ares," he said. "Just what are you doing here?"
Ares just smirked and shook his head, "Oh, you know. I was in the neighborhood and decided to drop by and pay a visit." He said, sarcasm lacing his voice.
Hades glared at him, "Cut the crap Ares and tell me the real reason why you're here."
Ares mocked being offended, "What? Cant I drop by to visit the godlings every now and then?" he asked with a fake hurt look.
Everyone stared at him with blank looks. Seeing those Ares shook his head, "fine, you guys are no fun."
"I actually came here to talk to that little runt." He said pointing to Naruto, who looked surprised, "why me?" he asked.
Ares smirked, "does the name Hanzo the Salamander mean anything to you?"
Naruto, Hades, Kushina, Chiron and even Dionysus narrowed their eyes at the war god, "And if it does?" Naruto asked in barley controlled rage at the name.
"Nothing, I just figured that you should know that he's still alive." Ares said.
Naruto glared at him anger clearly burning in his eyes, "you're lying! He's dead! I saw him die; I rode atop the one who killed him!"
Ares quirked a brow at the statement as every looked at the blonde, "is that so?" he asked, "but what if I'm not lying? What if I'm telling the truth and he's still alive?" but on the inside he was thinking, 'come on take the bait!'
Naruto's look could have frozen even the Sanin with the amount of hatred it had in it, but Ares didn't even looked fazed.
"If you are lying to me I'm gonna beat the truth out of you!" Naruto exclaimed, shocking even his parents and Dionysus.
Ares smirked "is that a challenge, punk?"
Helena was scared now for the one she had given her heart to and was pleading for him to stop while he was ahead, "Please, Naruto-kun, don't do this! Can't you see he's playing with your anger, trying to geode you into fighting him!?"
"Naruto, Helena is right! Don't do this. He's riling you into a fight!" Thalia added her two pennies worth trying to make him see the truth of the situation.
But their pleas went unheard as Naruto was too angry to listen.
Naruto's glare became challenging, but it still held a good amount of anger and hate in it, "It is." He said, and all those present could do nothing but stare in shock.
The campers had one thing on their minds, 'he must really have it out for this Hanzo person to challenge a god.' And many of them began to whisper amongst themselves.
"Please Naruto, don't do this." Kushina called trying to get Naruto to snap out of it; it didn't work as Naruto was still glaring at the now madly grinning Ares.
'Gotcha,' Ares thought sinisterly.
"Very well, I accept your challenge." He said, making everyone go wide eyed in terror, a half-blood fighting a god? Naruto didn't stand a chance.
"But," Ares said, as Naruto went to unseal his sword. "I choose the time and place since I was the challenged."
Naruto despite the warnings that were going off both around him and inside his head, nodded. "Then choose."
Ares' grin became evil as he snapped his fingers and the two of them disappeared.
When they were gone there was a stunned silence in the camp, before an orb formed to show both Naruto and Ares and where they were now.
Hades' and Kushina's eyes widened in shock before their looks quickly turned to that of worry. 'This is not good!'
'Olympus'
What no one knew was that Ares had been relaying everything from the point he arrived (which was just about the same time as Hades and Kushina) to Olympus. Some of the other gods all had their own reactions to Hades and Poseidon having sons, and about what Ares had played Naruto into doing.
Hermes the god of thieves, travelers, medicine, merchants, and above all else cunning, had a thoughtful look on his face as he calmly went over the situation he had just witnessed, 'Damn you Ares!' he thought, okay maybe he wasn't so calm. 'Can't you see that the boy is the one destined save both the realms?' he thought, as he looked over to two others in the room, they caught his gaze and nodded, 'I see then.' He sighed, 'it's time to claim our descendant.'
Hephaestus god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, metals, artisans, fire, and volcano's, rubbed a callused hand over his chin as he thought over the matter at hand and what it meant for him. 'I see so this is the one that is the key to saving the realms from destruction.' He chuckled slightly 'who would have thought that he would come from my line.' he thought amused, he caught the gaze of Hermes and nodded, 'it is time.'
Aphrodite's, goddess of love and beauty, brow was twitching madly at her boyfriend's stupid decision, 'damn you Ares! That is my grandson you are messing with! I hope he tears you a new ass for this!' she thought outraged at the man/god and swore that he would not be getting anything more than a cold look from her for more than a millennia. She felt a gaze on her a turned to see Hermes gazing at both her and her husband passing a silent message, she nodded showing she agreed. 'Finally! I thought I would never get to claim my cute little grandson!' she thought and gained an evil look, 'oh you are in for a big, big, surprise Ares.'
Hera and the rest of the gods, (minus Poseidon; he was glaring) were staring at Zeus who was looking both outraged and shocked. Outraged that both Poseidon and Hades had broken their vows (not like he can talk, and technically Hades hadn't), and shocked that Ares would play with a young hero's mind like that just to get him to fight.
"Poseidon," he said turning to glare at his older brother. "You, Hades and I will have words, if and when this issue is resolved. But for now we will-" he was cut off as the throne room doors came flying open and a girl about nine years of age burst in and began running all over the room her arms waving wildly behind her.
"LORD ZEUS! WE MUST FIND HIM! SEND OUT THE SCOUTS; SEND OUT THE BEST TRACKER ANIMALS! WE HAVE TO FIND NARUTO BEFORE HE GETS HURT!" she shouted, not stopping for any air the entire time.
Hermes, Aphrodite and Hephaestus smirked at her behavior and had the same thought 'damn Naruto! To get Hestia-one of the eternal maidens no less-worked up about your safety, you must be good at attracting the girls. I'm so proud.' (Yes even Aphrodite is proud of this fact.)
Zeus's brow was starting to twitch as the little girl continued to shout and wave her arms frantically while running around the room. Finally he had had enough of it.
"HESTIA SHUT UP!" he shouted causing the entirety of Olympus to shake and the other gods to cover their ears in pain. But it had its required effect as the now identified Hestia, goddess of the hearth and agriculture, to stop and stare at the lord of the sky in shock.
Zeus looked around the stunned room for a moment, before he coughed into his hand, "yes well sorry about that." he said and turned his attention to Hestia, "now try saying that again quietly."
Hestia nodded slightly scared, "Y-Yes lord Zeus. I was saying that we must send out our best trackers and find Naruto before Ares has the chance to hurt him." she said meekly.
Zeus shook his head now that he could understand her, "I will not do that Hestia," he said.
His answer gained a shocked and hurt look from the god in child form, "W-why?" she asked.
"They are not needed." He said simply, and pointed to the orb that was now starting to come into focus to show Naruto and Ares now standing in a different (but familiar to Naruto) place.
'The Shinobi realm'
Looking around, Naruto saw that Ares had transported them to a different place and that they were now standing in a huge crater. 'Why does this place feel familiar?' he asked himself, a bit of curiosity shining through his anger as he looked around.
-The mindscape-
Helena looked around through his eyes and gasped upon seeing where they were, "oh no."
Thalia turned to her (1) "What?" she asked worriedly, "What is this place?"
Helena gulped and said "This is the place Naruto was made to kill Yahiko." she said, causing Thalia to take on a worried and shocked look.
-Outside-
As he continued to look around, Naruto saw that the crater was in the center of a deep ravine, and if he wasn't mistaken he could just barely make out a tall tower in the distance through the thickly falling rain.
His eyes widened, now he knew where he was. Tears burned his eyes as images flickered pasted his mind's eye. Yahiko wrapped him in a hug as he choked out his last message to his son before falling to the ground with a bloody hole in his chest; a large nine-tailed fox charged a giant ball of condensed chakra and youki and mercilessly unleashing it on the cowering army beneath it.
Naruto forced the tears and memories away as he turned an enraged glare at the smirking Ares, who had remained silent up to this point, "do you recognize this place?" he asked.
Naruto said nothing, but his glare worsening was enough of an answer for the war god, who seemed to think for a moment before he snapped his fingers in mock realization, "oh, that's right, this is the place Hanzo made you kill your father figure."
Naruto said nothing, but one could see the rage and sadness running through his eyes as Ares mocked the memory of his adopted father.
"Just why have you brought us to fight here?" Naruto asked, his voice was strained from unvented anger.
Ares shrugged, "I thought it would be fitting since…," he trailed.
Fed up with the war god already, Naruto unsealed his sword and stood at the ready. "Since what?" he would humor the god for just a bit longer he decided.
Ares' smirk vanished, only to be replaced by a furious glare, "since I plan on finishing what my son started!" he exclaimed angrily as smoke began to billow out from beneath his sunglasses.
Naruto suddenly felt his rage vanish at the exclamation and just stared at the god, a slightly bewildered look on his face. "Your son?" he asked.
Ares, feeling his challengers anger suddenly disappear, nodded regardless. "what of it punk?" he asked, drawing his sword.
Naruto smirked beneath his mask, now it was his turn to bite back, "other than the fact that I can now see where Hanzo got his arrogant attitude from; nothing much."
Ares showed no signs of reaction from the comment other than a slight twitch in his jaw, "You know something brat? I was going to make your death quick and painless but for that insult I'm going to make it slow painful and embarrassing." Ares' hand rose from its tightened grip on his sword and snapped his fingers.
'Uzugakure no Sato'
"Why can't we go and search for Naruto?" the angry voice of Tsunade yelled as she punched a hole in the wall of the Uzukage's office.
Hiruzen sighed 'that's the third wall this month,' he thought depressed.
Ever since they had gotten the village on its feet Tsunade would constantly bug him for a mission to search for her lost godson, it had only gotten worse after they had visited the priestess Shion in the land of demons.
"Because Tsunade and like I've told you a thousand times already, Minato said to not bother trying as Naruto-kun and Konan-san are nowhere near the elemental nations!" Sarutobi said with a glare at his female student.
Tsunade glared right back at him, "and I've told you Sarutobi I don't care what he said! I will not rest until I can hold him in my arms again!" she shouted back. She had only been able to hold Naruto once and that was just after he had been born, right before the Konoha council had threatened his life. So she was understandably mad.
They glared at one another for what seemed like hours, until the door to the office burst open and Shizune came in with a frantic look.
"Uzukage-Sama! Tsunade-Sama!" she exclaimed. "An orb has formed in the village square!" she exclaimed anxiously. "It's Naruto!"
The next thing she knew was that Sarutobi and Tsunade had rushed out of the room. Most likely heading for the roof.
Shizune sighed in exasperation, "well at least…." She paused and looked around the room as if she were only just realizing she'd been left on her own. "Hey wait for me!" she shouted rushing out of the room, making for the roof as well.
When they got there they saw that there was indeed an orb over the village square and that Naruto was defiantly one of the people in it, and he did not look happy.
The other person in the orb made Tsunade gasp, "That's…"
'The land of rain'
Naruto narrowed his eyes when nothing happened after Ares snapped his fingers, "Was that supposed to do something?"
Ares' smirk returned a bit, "trust me punk, it did something alright. I originally planned on only Olympus and that camp viewing this little fight. But since you decided to go and take a swing at my pride, I think your friends in the elemental Nations would just love to see what I'm gonna do to you for that comment!" by the time his little rant had ended, Ares' eyes were once again sending out smoke and his sunglasses had even started to melt from the heat that must have been emitted from them. His body was tensed, his face was twisted into an angry scowl and he was letting off a large amount of killing intent.
However, Naruto showed no reaction to the god's anger, other than his eyes showing a bit of irritation as he finally decided to get to the reason they were there.
"I thought we were here to fight, not talk." he stated emotionlessly, "if that's all you're going to do I think you should just put me back at camp as I have no intention of wasting my time with you when I can be using it to finally get to know my parents."
'Camp'
Everyone gasped when they heard Naruto talk smack at the god, though some of them, Percy mostly, snickered.
Hades face palmed as Kushina smiled slightly. "Of all the….Why did I have to mention in that training scroll that pissing off an opponent would inevitably help win a fight? That strategy was meant to be used against mortals and monsters only." He muttered, though if one were to look closer they'd see the small smirk on the god of deaths face and the mischievous glint in his eye. Kushina want the only one Naruto got his pranking side from.
'That's my Sochi-kun; teach him not to mess with an Uzumaki!' Kushina thought proudly, but there was a bit of regret in her eyes as she heard the last part of Naruto's comment, 'I wish you could too Naru-Chan, I want nothing more than to hold in my arms you again.' She thought sadly.
'Land of rain'
If Ares was mad before than he was furious now. He brought his sword up and leveled it at the blonde's face. "You are going to die now, punk." He spat.
Naruto's eyes narrowed and he gave the god a smirk beneath his mask, "then bring it." he said, giving the universal sign of 'come and get it' with his free hand.
The next thing he knew Ares was in front of him with his sword raised. Naruto's eyes widened as Ares brought the sword down on him and quickly rolled to the left, barley dodging a decapitating strike.
'Fast!' he thought, and Ares appeared in front of him again with his sword coming down.
Naruto was able to block it, but he was sent skidding back a few feet as when their swords connected. 'He's strong too.' He thought surprised by how much strength Ares had in that swing.
Ares came in for a swipe at Naruto's lower half he leapt back and quickly jumped away to give himself more room. 'I'm to slow with the gravity seals on. I've gotta take them off!' he thought.
"Running away?" Ares asked mockingly when he saw this, "after all that tough talk I figured you'd put up a bit more of a fight."
Naruto didn't answer him as he raised a hand into half ram sign, 'gravity seals: full release!' there was a glow from the center of his back and he immediately felt light as a feather, but his time to enjoy the sensation, was cut short when Ares appeared in front of him sword raised for another debilitating blow.
Naruto was able to block in time and get him into a sword lock, he was able to hold strong but he could tell that his arms didn't have enough strength to hold against that of the god's own.
Ares smirked when he saw Naruto's arms begin to tremble, 'I'll admit this kid is fast and has good reflexes, but he's not good enough.' he thought. He began to put more pressure on his sword. Naruto grit his teeth as he focused on keeping Ares' sword away from him.
'I didn't want to use it so early but…' "Naruto-kun! Use my chakra before you resort to that!"Helena shouted, interrupting his thoughts, already pumping said chakra into his system.
Feeling the chakra running through him Naruto was internally thanking her, before his eyes narrowed and he grunted when he began to push Ares' sword back.
Ares eyes narrowed when he saw Naruto's eyes turn a blood red, and he felt his sword begin to be pushed away, 'no mortal, half-blood or not, should be able to match this level of strength. Is it the dark power I feel running through him?' he thought as he began to apply more pressure to his sword, trying to end this now.
Naruto grunted again when he felt more pressure on the sword lock and he began to unconsciously take chakra from Helena until wisps of it began to surround him, he became more feral looking, and he threw Ares off him, panting when he did so.
Ares landed on his feet and glared at Naruto. That is until he felt the young half-bloods power output and could literally see wisps of it coming of him. How can he be so powerful? And what the hell is that power? It like chakra but it's much darker.' He thought eyes narrowing in anger.
'Camp'
"SOOOO HOT!" were the shouts of a lot of girls, mostly from the Aphrodite cabin, when they saw how Naruto looked with Helena's power coming off of him.
Kushina sweat dropped 'is this really what most of mother's children are like?' She thought.
'Land of rain'
Ares sheathed his sword and began going through hand signs faster than Naruto could keep track, and when he finished, he shouted, "Fire Style: One thousand burning limbs Jutsu!"
A mass of golden limb shaped flames came roaring out of the god's mouth towards the still form of Naruto.
Just as they engulfed him he smirked and began channeling his chakra.
'Camp'
"Get out of the way Naruto!" Kushina shouted. Hades, Chiron and even Dionysus began to get worried; they had seen the hundreds of victims of that jutsu over the years, and they could honestly say Naruto had no chance against it…if it hit him.
'Olympus'
"Is Ares crazy!?" several of the gods shouted at once.
Hestia looked like she was about to faint, "GET OUT OF THE WAY NARUTO!" she shouted.
Zeus looked at the viewing orb with narrow eyes, he had saw the smirk, 'what are you planning young one?'
Hermes, Hephaestus, and Aphrodite glared at the orb, before they again caught each other's gaze and nodded.
Hermes snapped his fingers as he sent his claiming sign to Naruto.
'Land of rain'
Ares smirked evilly as the flames engulfed the son of Hades. He was about to turn and leave when he noticed something about the flames. Instead of plowing over and burning Naruto to a crisp like they were supposed to, they had begun to rotate around him.
"Wind Style: Rotating Dome!"Was the shout that came out of the flames. They died to show Naruto pivoting on the balls of his feet, his arms out stretched and surrounded in a dome of pure wind. He slowed to a stop and smirked at Ares as the wind around him died down, almost like he was asking if that was all he had.
Ares growled as Naruto was able to deflect his technique and he began going through more hands signs, "Fire style: phoenix incineration!" he shouted letting loose a flaming phoenix head from his mouth.
Naruto again smirked, 'another fire Jutsu?' he thought as he started his own string of seals; 'doesn't this guy know we're surrounded by its weakness?' as his hands settled into final seal, that of the bird, Naruto called out the name to his technique, "Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!"
A huge dragon was formed out of the falling rain and flew at blinding speeds towards the phoenix which was looking mighty small at the moment. The flaming head was put out with a massive hissing sound and steam covered the field.
'How the hell does he keep getting out of my attacks?' Ares thought before he began to see something glowing threw the steam.
As the mist cleared it showed Naruto standing there with a golden Caduceus hovering over his head. Ares' eyes widened when he saw this, 'this punk is not only Hades son but the descendent of Hermes too?' he thought, before his eyes narrowed in anger, 'I don't care whose kid/descendant he is. I will end him!'
Naruto was too focused on Ares to notice the symbol of the messenger god.
'Camp'
"HUH!?" everyone shouted seeing the caduceus above Naruto's head, the Hermes cabin especially.
Upon hearing a sheepish giggle the entire camp turned to Kushina who was rubbing the back of her head, "Did I forget to mention that hermes is my great grandfather?"
At hearing her admission the campers, and even Hades, face faulted.
'Olympus'
The other gods were staring at Hermes like he had gone and grown another head. "What?" he asked, and like their children at camp, the gods face faulted.
'Land of rain'
As the symbol faded Ares growled in anger as he flipped through more hand signs, "Fire Style: Giant Fireball!" he shouted, sending an absolutely HUGE fireball out of his mouth shocking Naruto to his place.
"Come on Naruto-kun move!" Helena shouted.
"Damn it Naruto, get out of the way!" Thalia shouted. Both were trying to get him into gear but Naruto was too shocked by the size of the fireball to do anything.
Ares smirked when he saw Naruto not moving, and the fireball getting ever closer thought 'I gotcha this time punk'
'Olympus'
"NO!" Hestia shouted covering her eyes as the fireball converged on him.
The other gods, hade wide eyes seeing this, and Hephaestus quickly snapped his fingers to send his claim.
'Land of rain'
As Naruto was consumed Ares grinned evilly again.
But that fell when the flames dispersed and he saw Naruto standing there unharmed surprised as hell and a flaming hammer above his head.
'Come on! The one time I get the surprised upper hand and he turns out to be Hephaestus's decedent too!' Ares thought angrily, but in his mind a chibi version of himself was crying anime tears and saying "what is it 'let's all pick on Ares day?'"
'Camp'
Now everyone was staring blankly at the orb and they turned to a sheepishly grinning Kushina, "What? Is it a crime to be related to more than one god?" she asked, but inside she was thinking 'thank you for saving my son, Hephaestus-Sofu (grandfather).'
'Olympus'
'You are very welcome mago (grandchild). I'm just glad I made it in time.' Hephaestus thought hearing his granddaughter's thanks.
He turned to the other gods who were now staring at him in surprise and like Hermes he asked, "What? Last I checked it wasn't illegal to have a child with a half-blood." He said and turned back to view the fight.
'Could you have cut it any closer?' Hermes and Aphrodite asked rhetorically in their minds.
'Back with the fight'
Naruto oblivious to the thoughts of everyone watching was looking down at himself confused.
'W-What? H-how am I immune to the fire?' he asked himself, his confusion etched on his face.
"I don't know, but your body is approaching the limit of chakra I can safely give you so you had better end this quick." Helena said.
Naruto nodded, he could already feel the negative effects that her chakra was having on him, signified by his hands shaking, and his breathing was becoming heavier with every movement he made.
One thing was for sure; he wouldn't last much longer like this.
'Cut the chakra Lena-Chan. Its time I ended this.' He thought to her, eyes narrowing at Ares.
Helena nodded, cutting the flow of her chakra, "just be careful, Naruto-kun. We both know you haven't fully mastered the new level yet." She said.
Naruto nodded slowly closing his eyes, 'I know Lena-Chan.'
Ares seeing Naruto close his eyes smirked to himself, 'looks like the punks given up.' He thought as Naruto's appearance turned back to normal.
Ares drew his sword and rushed at the blonde.
-Camp-
"No don't just give up!" Percy shouted seeing his friend seemingly excepting defeat. This was reflected by many of the other campers.
Hades and Kushina looked thoughtful seeing their son do this.
A thought struck the both of them at the same time and Kushina turned to Hades with wide eyes, "you don't think that he's going to use it? Do you?" she asked.
Hades nodded, not taking his eyes off the orb, "if he's going to then he had better use it quick."
Kushina nodded to him and turned back to view what would happen, inwardly thinking, 'I hope you know what you're doing Naru-Chan. Just please make it out of this alive.'
'Olympus'
"N-No," Hestia whispered closing her eyes to block what was about to happen.
The other gods had narrow eyes, 'what are you doing…Naruto?' they all thought. They knew he wasn't out of tricks, but they didn't know what he was closing his eyes for.
Hermes and Hephaestus looked over to Aphrodite. She nodded and snapped her fingers.
'The fight'
As Ares got closer he saw that Naruto hadn't done anything yet and he smirked, 'this is it!' he thought.
He brought his sword up once he was in range and prepared to bring it down on Naruto's head.
But just before it connected Naruto's eyes snapped open and his arm shot out towards Ares and he called a jutsu that had most of those watching gapping, "SHINRA TENSIE!" he shouted sending Ares flying into the side of the crater and causing him to leave an Ares shaped hole in it.
'Olympus'
"WHAT?" all but three gods shouted. They all had wide eyes when they heard Naruto shout out his jutsu's name, and they couldn't believe it; that was a jutsu that only a Rinnegan wielder could use.
'Uzu'
The ones watching in the whirlpool village, all had shocked looks and wide eyes.
Tsunade, and Jiraiya, were the most shocked; the last time any of them had ever seen or heard of that jutsu was when Jiraiya was training the Ame orphans.
"N-No it's not possible!" Tsunade stuttered out.
Jiraiya was too stunned to say anything.
Hiruzen raised a confused brow, "what's not possible Tsunade?" he asked.
"That jutsu," Jiraiya finally spoke getting his sensei's attention.
"Someone can only use it when a special condition is met." He said not taking his eyes off the orb.
"Condition?" Sarutobi asked.
Jiraiya nodded "a condition that I've only seen to have been met by one person." He said, causing Hiruzen to nod for him to continue
Jiraiya's eyes never left the orb as he delivered the clincher, "Only someone with the legendary Rinnegan can use it and its partner jutsu, Banshō Ten'in." He said.
Now Hiruzen understood why they were so shocked and he and Shizune were just as surprised.
'The fight'
'I-it can't be! That jutsu is only usable with the Rinnegan!' Ares shouted in his mind as he began to shakily pull himself out of the hole, 'if this kid has it than I'm doomed!'
When Ares immerged from the hole in the wall Naruto could see that he had a shocked look, and if he wasn't mistaken, there was a hint of fear in it as well.
Ares took one look at Naruto's eyes and he immediately paled and thought, 'Oh shit.' Because Naruto's eyes weren't his usual azure blue. Instead they had changed to a dark royal blue and had three rings around the pupil which had shrunk to the size that it was nothing more than a dot.
Naruto smirked, at him.
"Scared Ares?" he asked sounding a little more confident than he felt.
'I won't be able to last much longer. That last jutsu took over half my remaining chakra.' He thought.
Ares was about to retort when something began to happen to Naruto. His form began to glow with a soft golden light, and his clothes began to change.
Gone were the torn orange shirt, blue jeans and sneakers. Now they were replaced by a pure black cloak that went down to his ankles, black skin tight jeans and combat boats. His chest was bare leaving his toned abs for the world to see. The spiral seal that held Helena was in full display. And finally his mask was gone, finally revealing his now baby fatless face and his whisker birth marks.
Ares gulped as he defiantly knew who had sent that sign, 'not good,' he thought.
Naruto looked down at his form to see his new outfit, 'not bad, but I could use a shirt.' As he thought this he could hear Helena giggling perversely as she caught sight of his bare chest, he could swear that if he were to look inside the seal he would see her drooling, and he thought he heard Thalia let out a perverted giggle as well.
'Olympus'
Aphrodite smirked when she saw the others looking to her, "What? He happens to be the son of my daughter, Kushina." She said and turned back to the orb, but with a twitching brow.
'Though I get the feeling that he has just insulted the outfit I sent him.' She pouted. 'Ungrateful brat.'
Hestia couldn't say a word because she was too busy blushing at Naruto's face and body to bother with listening to anybody.
'Camp'
"Are those…" Percy began, but was interrupted by a shout of, "WHISKERS!" from half of the females in the camp, the other half had just fainted from blood loss.
Hades seeing this sighed and turned to Kushina, "you wanted to know why I left him that mask?" he asked getting a nod from his wife.
He pointed to the conscious half of the female campers, who now had looks of what a predator would send its prey directed at Naruto, "that's why."
Kushina groaned after a moment of thought when she realized what her mother had just done, 'really Kaa-san? Did you have to take his mask? He already has enough problems with fangirls.'
'Land of Rain."
'I had better not get anymore fangirls because of this!' Naruto thought with a shiver. He could practically feel the predatory gazes the female campers were sending him.
He looked up at Ares and smirked, "you know if you want to give up all you have to do is say so." He said. Ares' look turned from shocked and slightly scared to murderous, and his sunglasses began to melt.
"The god of war never gives up!" he shouted. "Just for that I'm going to pay that slut you call a mother a visit."
The god smirked when he saw Naruto begin to tremble, "maybe I'll show her what it's like to be with a god."
'Mindscape'
"Uh-oh," Helena said, once she heard this.
Thalia looked to her worried, "uh-oh? What's that supposed to mean?" she asked.
Helena shook her head, "one thing you never do around Naruto (besides calling him a wimp) is insult Konan." she said. "Because once you do you are as close to death as you can ever be without dying."
Thalia's eyes widened as the implications of what Ares just said and Naruto's imminent reaction became clear to her.
"Uh-oh indeed." Was all she said, as they both turned back to watch the fight.
'The fight'
Ares was about to continue insulting Konan when he felt an unreal amount of KI flood the area.
He looked to Naruto to see that his hair was now shadowing his eyes, said eyes glowing from the shadow of his hair. Ares gulped 'such intent and blood lust. Just what the hell is this boy!?' he thought.
Naruto looked up and Ares saw that his eyes held nothing but the hatred and the desire to rip him to shreds.
The next thing Ares new was that Naruto was in front of him with his sword drawn, going for his head. He tried to jump back but he was blocked by a clone who had a Rasengan aimed for the base of his spine.
His eyes widened when he saw this, and leaped over both attacks, Naruto's sword took out the clone before he could react. Ares smirked, but turned and in a burst of speed was heading for the village in the distance.
"No you don't!" Naruto shouted, and began to chase after him.
Ares was able to maintain a good distance from him, 'I need more speed!' Naruto thought.
He got an idea, 'well I've already revealed the Rinnegan why not use them?' he thought.
He took out a sealing scroll unrolled it, bit his thumb and wiped the blood on the holding seal. There were several 'poofs' of smoke and when it cleared there were six people running beside him.
While four of them looked to be exactly like him (minus the outfits, they were in his shinobi cloths) the last two, looked to be different people, and had multiple metal rods pierced through their faces.
The first had jaw length red hair, a slightly round face, and deathly pale skin, and was taller than the rest. This was the body of Nagato (as for the piercings they're the same ones that the animal path Nagato uses in his invasion of Konoha).
The second was revealed to be Yahiko Hariken. And blazing in their eyes was the Rinnegan.
Naruto looked over to the body of his uncle (he had come to call him that). "Do it," he ordered. The body nodded and all seven of them jumped high in the air while he began going through hands signs at a fast pace.
When they were finished he clapped his hands together and exclaimed in a dead tone, "Summoning jutsu!"
There was a huge blast of smoke, and out of it came a giant eagle. With the seven of them riding on its back they followed Ares into the rain village.
'Olympus'
"WHAT!" Zeus shouted, drawing worried looks from the others. "How does that half-blood have the Eagle Clan!?"
The others shook their heads. Zeus could be rather picky with who has the contract of his animal symbol.
Zeus sat back, mumbling; "if Hades has anything to do with this then he'll wish I never gotten him out of Kronos' stomach."
'Camp'
As they watched the last few events Hades had the urge to go back to the underworld and lock himself in his palace, he gulped. 'Why do I have a feeling that by giving Naruto the eagle contract I have just made Zeus very angry?'
Kushina heard his gulp and turned her head ignoring the now whispering campers, "you okay Hades-kun?" she asked elementally.
He nodded nervously, "as much as I can be when I get the feeling that I just royally pissed Zeus off."
Kushina sighed and nodded to him, "I told you that giving Naruto that contract wasn't a good idea."
Hades nodded, "yeah, I can see why now."
'Fight'
With the eagle summons now providing the speed needed catching up to Ares was short work.
As his form came closer Naruto looked to his Azura path. It nodded and raised its hands.
The hands transformed from the wrists up into a pair of small missiles, which were launched at Ares' retreating back.
They impacted the ground at the gods' heels sending him flying into a nearby building.
Ares pulled himself out of the hole he found himself in and turned to glare at the blonde, only to stop and gap at him once he saw that he had help.
'He can use the paths ability too?' he thought beginning to doubt his chances of winning the fight. Hell he'd be lucky if he made it out unharmed at all.
He began to run again. Naruto seeing this looked to the body of his adopted father, he nodded and the body raised one of its arms and began to manipulate the gravity around the god.
Ares' retreating form was lifted up and brought back to Naruto, when the the Deva path swung its hand down he was slammed into the roof of a building (the same one as Jiraiya was in his fight against pain) and Naruto and his paths jumped down from the eagle summons which dispelled itself now that its job was done.
As they fell the paths and Naruto each created a chakra rod.
They raised the rods above their heads as they closed in on the downed form of the war god.
Ares could do nothing but watch as they descended on him with the rods raised high.
The seven of them thrust the rods in their hands down into the back of the god as they reached the buildings top.
"AGHHHHH!" Ares screamed in pain as the rods ripped into his back and hands, pinning him to the ground.
'Camp'
There was complete silence as everyone saw that Ares had been pinned.
"D-Did I see that right? Did Naruto really beat Ares?" a camper asked, rubbing his eyes. His neighbor was doing the same and nodded, "I-I think he did."
Chiron could only stare at the scene shown by the orb, 'H-he's that powerful? And he hasn't even had hero training?'
Dionysus like the centaur was staring at the orb, but instead of shock it was a stare of contemplation and he had a smirk on his face, 'I knew I liked this boy. Anyone able to put Ares in his place is okay in my book.' He thought.
Hades and Kushina while surprised that Naruto had been able to defeat Ares had proud smiles on there faces.
'You did it Sochi-kun!' Kushina thought happily.
'That's my boy. You've made me proud Naruto.' Hades thought proudly.
The entirety of the Ares cabin meanwhile was glaring with eyes full of hate at Naruto.
'Olympus'
There was stunned silence as the gods saw what Naruto had done to Ares.
"H-How?" Hera asked shocked that her son had been defeated. Many of the gods had the same reaction as her.
Zeus though was just staring at the scene with a blank look; his thoughts couldn't be described at the moment.
Hestia was staring at the viewing orb with a stunned look, before her face broke into a happy smile, and she began shouting, "I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT NARUTO!"
Hermes, Hephaestus, and Aphrodite all had proud smirks on their faces, 'you have proven yourself to the others now…my mago (again it means grandchild I don't know the term for great grandchild).'
'The rain village'
Naruto glared at the god pinned down by the seven chakra rods (six in his back the last was keeping him from using his hands), Ichor the golden blood of the gods was gushing out of his wounds.
Ares was staring at Naruto with a scared and disbelieving look, "p-p-please have mercy," he begged (really pathetic don't you think? A god begging a mortal for mercy).
Naruto continued to glare down at him, "we are not done yet Ares," he said as he brought his hands together, palms facing less than an inch apart and began focusing what was left of his chakra. A small black sphere of pure chakra formed between his palms. Naruto looked up from his palms to his paths and sent them the mental command. They nodded and two grabbed ares and ripped him out of his pinned state, causing further pain and humiliation to the defeated god, and tossed him into the air as Naruto let the black sphere float from his hands, high into the air.
the two collided and Naruto once again brought his hands together.
"CHIBAKU TENSEI!"
When he shouted the name of the jutsu rocks had started to fly and gather around Ares, the rocks combined into a huge round ball (the same as the one when he fought pain) "AAAAHHHHAAA!" Naruto screamed in exertion as he forced his body to give up what little chakra it had left.
When the ball of earth was formed it resembled a miniature moon. The only visible sign of Ares was his head sticking out the side of the huge construction.
Naruto was left a panting mess, his hands were braced against his knees to stop him from collapsing, his chakra reserves almost completely empty. "Lena-Chan, give me enough chakra to use this last jutsu." He thought to the vixen in his gut.
"Alright, but this will hurt a bit Naruto-kun. Your body still isn't ready to use more of my chakra than you already have." Helena said, but giving him what he asked for regardless.
Naruto nodded to her and felt her chakra once again flood his system boosting his dwindling reserves. That was followed by a huge amount of pain cursing through his body, but he pushed it aside for now and stood up glaring at the ball of earth restraining the god.
"We are still not done Ares! During the battle you called Konan Kaa-san a slut and threatened to rape her. You will be the first victim of my newest jutsu to pay for what you have threatened to do!" Naruto shouted to him, scaring the god further.
"I have created a lightning jutsu so powerful that it can rival and possibly surpass Zeus' master bolt!" Naruto shouted from the top of the building, both his blue and Helena's red chakra beginning to surround him in a swirling storm, thunder was beginning to rumble.
'Uzu'
Every shinobi in the village was in shock due what Naruto had said. They had all heard of the legendary Zeus and his master bolt. A jutsu so strong that it could blow the tops off mountains and destroy enter villages with little effort.
One Jonin was especially shocked at what his little brother claimed to have accomplish.
"Did he really create a jutsu that powerful? To rival the mythical master bolt?" Kakashi asked, pulling his headband up so his Sharingan could study and possibly copy it.
'Olympus'
Every last one of the gods were stunned to silence at this proclamation. They felt a burst of KI coming from Zeus and they all looked to him worried to see that he was glaring furiously at Naruto through the orb.
"How dare that boy mock me! Let me see this so called jutsu!" He spat.
The other gods looked back at the orb to view this jutsu. To be honest they were all a little scared of it, especially if it was as powerful as Naruto claimed.
'Camp'
No one said a thing as they stared at the orb in shock at what Naruto had just stated. Something more powerful than the master bolt of Zeus? If it was possible than they knew they should never mess with the blonde.
Hades, Kushina, Chiron and Dionysus were staring in shock and a bit of interest to see this jutsu.
'The fight'
As his chakra began to climb to levels never before seen, Naruto's fist became covered in a ball of crackling lightning. Raising his fist into the air, a giant dragon head came from the clouds.
Naruto glared at the now terrified and struggling god.
"Now vanish with the roar of thunder, and let this herald the beginning of the one known as pain!" Naruto shouted. He thrust his lightning covered hand towards Ares and called out the name of his jutsu, "Kirin!" the dragon head let out a roar and flew at blinding speeds at Ares.
All Ares could do was stare in fear. His mouth was open in a silent scream as the lightning dragon slammed into him.
There was a deafening "BOOM" and a blinding flash of light. Rocks from the miniature moon went flying everywhere.
When the light died down there was nothing left of the giant ball of earth, and Ares was nowhere to be seen.
The clouds cleared, allowing the sun to shine where the rain had forever fallen on the rain village.
Naruto could be seen panting heavily on the edge of the roof top, almost unconscious from an extreme case of chakra exhaustion.
He smirked and began to fall forward, "Now Ares. You shall forever know pain." He whispered, plunging from the building's top, unable to hold himself up any longer. The last thing he saw and heard before he lost consciousness was the fast approaching ground and Helena's and Thalia's concerned shouts of "Naruto-kun!"
Just as he was about to impact it, he vanished along with the orbs that were being used to view his fight.
'Uzu'
Everyone in the village could do nothing but continue to stare in amazement at what the blonde jinchuriki had done to the man he was fighting. (They thought he was vaporized)
"H-He actually did it." Kakashi stuttered eyes wide in amazement.
His Sharingan had seen every inch of damage it had done. His assessment?
It was just as, if not more, powerful than Naruto had promised.
'Olympus'
The gods sat there in amazement, unable to do or say anything.
All they could do was stare at where Naruto had been at even after the orb had vanished.
Zeus himself was in total and utter shock.
'That jutsu! It was even more powerful than the master bolt!'
'Camp'
No one could say a word. All they could do was stare at where the orb had once been.
They heard a snapping of a pair of fingers and a small "pop". They turned to see that Hades now held the battered and unconscious form of Naruto.
Hades and Kushina did nothing but stare at their son in pride, they each had smiles reflecting how proud they were.
Hades looked up to see that everyone was just staring at them.
He raised a brow, "What?"
And cut!
Whew! That was one of the longest fight scene I have ever written.
Shinnagami wrote a good deal of the ending scene. But I added my parts to it.
I hope you all liked it.
And the mindscapes are conected, for those of you wondering why Thalia was with Helena.
8/29/13 Edit;
Okay, looking back on this a few days ago I noticed that some of the grammar in this chapter was pretty bad, so I've spent the better part of a day going over and fixing it. I really hope its better than it was before. the grammar at least because it left the fight alone, other than a few changes to the dialog.