AN: I am sorry that it tooks so long for me to get this but at the same time I am not as I do have a life outside of Fanfiction that and I lost my flash drive. So I am not going to apologize everytime it takes me a while to get a chapter out as I do get busy and I lose things.
Hermes caught the book after Poseidon threw it at him.
Chapter 7
Camp Activities With Story
'Story?' Everyone slightly confused as Baby Naruto cooed reaching for his Mother's hair.
Naruto and Silena ran out of the stables as quick as they could as they made it outside and looked in the direction where they heard the explosion come from. However what they saw was not exactly what they expected.
"No, I bet it wasn't." Hestia chuckled lightly having a slight idea of what happened.
Standing outside one of the restrooms was none other than Percy who was looking a little worse for wear but other than that he was fine. It was those around him that seemed to have been affected.
In a huge puddle of muddy water in front of the building was the girl who was eyeing Percy from the Ares Cabin. She was sitting in the giant buddle drenched in water yelling at her two boys that stood next to her. No doubt they were from the Ares cabin too. However Annabeth was also there and unfortunately she was not as lucky either. She was drenched from head to toe and was not looking too happy at Percy who for some reason was completely dry.
The demi-gods and Grover besides and Annabeth, Clarisse and Percy burst out laughing. While the other were blushing slightly Percy more so than the other two.
When Naruto and Silena saw it Naruto had to bite his lip to stop from laughing out loud while Silena covered her mouth but Naruto could clearly here small giggling sounds slipping through.
Clarisse and Annabeth glared at Selina who continued to laugh.
The two made their way over and when they got close the group noticed them.
"So what happened Percy? Was the bathroom not to your liking?" he said taking a look inside the bathrooms and seeing all the piping had been pretty much destroyed and burst all over the place.
Everyone laugh as that was a rather good joke.
He got a snort from Annabeth and a nervous chuckle from Percy while Clarisse glared slightly at Naruto.
"Come on Clarisse. I'm guessing your camp welcome didn't exactly go as planned" Silena said walking up to the downed girl who stuck out her hand.
"Do you do that every time someone new comes to the camp or I am just special?" Percy asked sarcasticly causing everyone snicker.
The tall girl looked at her a little hesitantly before she accepted.
"Something like that" she said as she got up and flapped her arms about trying to dry her sleeves of us a bit and get the mud stains off. Her eyes slowly drifted over towards Naruto who was standing next to Silena before she narrowed her eyes.
"So ninja boy is here too" she said study him just like Annabeth had been with Percy. She was looking him over and saw a few scars on his arms showing that he really is a fighter and was guessing that he must have had a few decent fights. She extended her hand out." I'm Clarisse Daughter of Ares."
"Well it's good to know that you can be nice others besides me." Silena said with a smile.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki" he said accepting the hand shake. "Nice to meet you war girl" he said getting a little look of surprise from Clarisse and those around him before she grinned.
"Nice nickname. I have to say those little ninja tricks you performed last night were interesting. Those can definantly help on the battlefield. And beating the Minotaur is no easy feat. You made quite a few people a little jealous from around camp at the chance you got, myself included. You I can believe beating it, him not so much" she said pointing towards Percy who pouted and looked a little angry.
"Not Cool." Percy grumbled.
"Perhaps we could spar sometime to see if it's your not all talk that is."
Naruto was now the one who grinned at her. "That sounds great, though from a daughter of the war god my expectations will be a little higher than normal."
"Then I'll make sure I don't disappoint ninja boy" she said before she looked at her clothes. "I don't suppose you have a little ninja trick that could make my clothes dry?" she said in a jokey manner.
"Probably not." Clarisse sighed.
"Sure" he said shrugging which got a little look of disbelief from those around him. He made a few quick hand signs before he pushed a warm current of air over Clarisse and her wet clothes. After about a minute of silence as everyone watched her clothes dry Naruto stopped the jutsu as Clarisse and everyone else checked her clothes over which were now completely dry and like they weren't wet in the first place.
"Wicked." The demi-gods and Grover said at the same time.
"Woh" was on the thought on everyone's mind while Naruto looked as if what he did was an everyday thing. Everyone looked at him in amazement while Annabeth had stars in her eyes again. Naruto knew she would have about a hundred more questions already lined up for him so he figured he would explain.
Everyone began snickering at Annabeth who was blushing brightly.
"Where I'm from every ninja had a nature affinity meaning we can manipulate the element that we are most in tuned with. As you can see mine is wind. Since I have practised my control over it I can use the wind to do little tasks like drying clothes. It's pretty handy with chores."
"No kidding." The demi-gods muttered under their breathes.
Clarisse whistled in amazement just like the others did and nodded her thanks to him before looked over and glared at Percy. "Don't think you will get off lightly Prissy" she said with venom in her tone. "I won't forget this and I will make you pay. That is a promise" she said before she stomped off with the other two silent members of her group following behind her but gave a nod to Naruto and Silena before she walked past.
"Jeez. I am really feeling the love here." Percy said sarcastically rolling his eyes.
"I better go too. I have some riding lesson in a few minutes." Silena said. "Remember Naruto if you ever want to learn how to ride a Pegasus just ask and I will be happy to show you the ropes" she said before giving Percy and Annabeth a wave and a little wink towards Naruto which made him blush a little before heading back towards the stables.
'Looks like my grandson has a crush.' Hestia thought with a small smile while Artemis looked slightly annoyed.
"Well that was eventful. What did you do to piss war girl off?" he asked Percy and Annabeth who then went on to explain.
Percy told him she just came up to him and said he couldn't have been one of the two who beat the Minotaur and then went on to pick a fight with him.
"This why you shouldn't do that Clarisse." Silena sighed making daughter of Ares grin sheepishly.
She was about to give him a swirly in the toilets when all of a sudden the pipes all burst and the water collided into Clarisse and knocked her outside.
Naruto listened intently but frowned a little when he heard about the water. The way Percy explained it made it sound like someone was controlling the water. He then wondered if it could have been Percy since his emotions was no doubt going wild from the fight with Clarisse that he caused it before he put it in the back of his mind.
"She is a bully" Annabeth said. "She just enjoys making people's lives hell around here" she said while Naruto shrugged.
"I thought she was alright. A little rough around the edges but friendly enough."
Hestia and Artemis smiled happy that he was judging her on what others thought of her. Clarisse also smiled happy that it seem that Ninja boy was looking like he was going to be her friend.
"That's because you seem to have her respect. She respects anyone who can fight well enough and it's very rare to come by." The way Annabeth spoke about her told Naruto that she obviously did not get on with the older girl and the two had come into conflict before in the past.
"That's true." Classire said nodding in agreement to what had been said about her and how she gives her respect to people.
"Oh well" Naruto said. "Let's get Percy back to the Hermes cabin. I'm sure there is still much for him to see."
The group nodded before Annabeth asked "Naruto do you think you could urm-" she said motioning to her still drenched clothes to which Naruto nodded. He did the same to Annabeth as he did to Clarisse and after a minute Annabeth was completely dry again.
"Thank you" she said smiling at him while Naruto gave her a grateful nod.
The day went on smoothly from there. As they walked back Percy repeatedly apologised to Annabeth who simply told him to drop it.
"That is because she is most likely trying not to wring your neck." Grover said jokingly cause the demi-god besides Annabeth and Percy, Apollo and Hermes to laugh.
They also began discussing about whom Percy's godly parent could be.
"Poseidon" Apollo coughed before jumping behind his throne to avoid the bunch of arrows Artemis shot at him.
Since both Naruto and Percy knew his mom was very mortal, it could only mean his day was his Olympian parent. Percy was still in disbelief about the fact that the gods were real but he was slowly coming around.
Then Annabeth told them about the time she and a few others from camp got the chance to go to Mount Olympus during the winter solstice. Both boys were amazed that she actually got to go there which she then told them that Mount Olympus was accessible to get to by going to the Empire State building.
"Really?" Percy asked in surprise.
Percy shook his head in disbelief while Naruto laughed. They were near Mount Olympus the whole time they were in New York and they did not even realise it.
Thought when Percy had asked Annabeth about her parents or more particularly her dad. That didn't go over well with the girl and immediately told Percy to drop it and not to ask.
The rest of the day went pretty quickly and smoothly as the two spend most of the day in the Hermes cabin talking and Naruto introducing him to Connor and Travis who seemed to like Percy at first glance.
"Most likely because they think he will be a good target to pull pranks on." Selina said as the rest of the demi-god besides Percy but including Grover nodded in argeement. Naruto began clapping and gruggling happily at the word pranks causing all of the females to coo at the cuteness even Zoe.
Then when dinner came around Luke did the same with Percy as he did with Naruto with telling him the rules and about the offerings to the gods. Naruto once again made his offering to his mom and Lady Hestia.
Hestia and Artemis smiled at this happy that their grandson/son was accepting them even if he didn't really realize this.
Afterwards they went to the amphitheatre again and the Apollo cabin once again started singing, this time singing songs that others were sure dated back into the nineties. Thankfully Naruto saw that Percy had calmed down now and was finally beginning to settle in, even if it was only slightly.
"That's good." Hestia said with a smile.
He laughed during the campout and helped himself to a few marshmallows around the fire. Naruto was happy to see that his friend was beginning to feel more comfortable at their new home.
As the day came to an end Percy and Naruto took their spots in the Hermes cabin with Naruto back next to Connor and Travis's bunk bed while Percy was a little ways away and next to one of the windows at the front of the cabin.
From then on both Naruto and Percy went along with the day to day activities. On the Wednesday was Naruto's first archery lesson which he along with some of the others from the Hermes cabin took part in as well as Percy and a few from the Apollo cabin.
"I can't wait to see how my nephew is in archery!" Apollo yelled
First Archery Lesson
Chiron took that lesson and had the camper line up in front of the targets. Thankfully there were enough targets for everyone to have one each.
Naruto and Percy took the targets next to each other as they listened to Chiron explain how a bow is used and explained how to use them properly and safely without hurting themselves in the process.
"I can already see Prissy being complete crap at this." Clarisse said with a grin.
While Naruto managed it without problems Percy was another story.
Somehow he managed to get the bow string hooked on his necklace around his neck and then chipped the edge of the bow while trying to get it off.
'How did he manage that?' was the collective thought of the room.
When eventually he managed to get it free he took a deep breath and follow Chiron's instruction as did Naruto.
"Pull the string back but don't force it back. Keep calm, keep your breathing steady and pull back gently. Aim and then take the shot."
Naruto did so and put his index finger and middle finger around the quiver of the arrow while his thumbs held the shot together. He kept his breathing light and steady and could hear the delicate sound of his heartbeat in his ears. It felt like everything else around him had gone silent and was focused solely on the target.
'That's what happens when I hold a bow.' Artemis and Apollo thought, well more Artemis than Apollo.
Percy was attempting to do the same but was struggling to focus on the target and his grip on the arrow kept loosening. Then at the same time both boys let the arrow rip through the air and hit their target.
Chiron trotted over and first looked at Percy's and winced slightly when he saw the arrow had not even hit the target and instead hit one of the trees by the forest with the arrow imbedded in the bark. A wood nymph then appeared next to the tree and began shouting out Greek curse words to Percy who had an embarrassed look on his face.
"Oops. Sorry." Percy said sheepishly as everyone else howled in laughter while Baby Naruto gurgled happily clapping his hands caused the women to coo again.
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"SORRY" he shouted but the wood nymph just glared at him before shaking her fist in the air before disappearing into the tree.
"I am surprised she didn't do more than that." Apollo muttered.
"Sorry Chiron" Percy said as he looked at the centaur as he delicately put the bow back on to the ground.
"Don't worry Percy. It's your first try and you will improve" he said trying to keep Percy in high spirits. He then turned to Naruto and looked at the target. He was pleasantly surprised when he saw the arrow was in bedded right in the center of the bulls eye.
"That's my favorite nephew!" Apollo whooped. "He is your only nephew." Artemis said happy that her son had her talent for archery.
"Very good Naruto" he said applauding the blonde who was just as surprised as he was to get a bulls eye on his first ever try. "It not often one gets a bull's eye on his first try. Not even some of the Apollo's children manage that."
Apollo looked offended by that.
"Maybe it was beginner's luck." he said getting a small nod from Chiron but Naruto knew that what he just said was a lie.
Naruto looked towards the target and just stared at the arrow. It felt like the world had just stopped when he fired the arrow. He didn't understand why but with the bow in his hand and firing the arrow it had just felt so natural to him, like he was born to use a bow. Like his body had all of a sudden gone on autopilot and was discovering a skill he didn't even know he had. He thought perhaps past target practise with kunai and shurikans had helped but he was not so sure.
Naruto looked behind him to see there were four more arrows in the pile behind him. He got them and placed them next to him, wanting to try something out.
What happened next left those watching quite shocked and mouths opened slightly. As quick as lightning and one after the other Naruto fired the arrows towards the targets that it almost looked like a blur.
It happened within the space of ten seconds but when everyone looked over at the target board the four new arrows were all on the bull's eye all imbedded into each other and causing the first and second arrow to split in half from the force of the other three.
'That's my boy.' Artemis thought proudly looking down and smiling at the baby in her lap who looked up and smilied toothlessly at her causing her smile to widen.
Chiron whistled while some of the other campers applauded. It was not every day you saw something like that and Naruto was continuing to surprise them. Percy gave Naruto a thumb up for a job well done which Naruto nodded back thankfully.
"My word Naruto if I had not known you before you came here I would of said you were a professional at this" Chiron said examine the target again thinking at the rate Naruto was going he could be one of the best archers the camp has ever had.
"Damn straight! My nephew is beast!." Apollo yelled only to get slapped upside the head for his language.
"I can't really explain it" Naruto said getting Chiron's attention. "When the bow was in my hand it just felt right. Like I knew exactly what to do and my body just went on autopilot."
Chiron nodded. He had heard that before from some of the Apollo demi gods but they had never quite been able to perform something as incredible as Naruto on his first try. Currently Chiron along with Grover and Mr D were the only ones aware that Naruto's godly parent was his mom.
And out of all the goddess's Chiron knew of only one who could do something like that with a bow.
'Hmm. I wonder if he will accept it. Most likely as it is the most logical explaination.' Athena thought to herself.
However the thought was quickly erased from the centaur's thoughts since the thought itself was completely ludicrous and the chance of her having a child was all but zero.
'Or not.' she mentally corrected herself.
"Well never the less you did amazing for your first time with a bow Naruto" he said before he trotted off to help Percy who had somehow got the bow string stuck in his pants zipper.
"How did you manage that?!" Poseidon asked as he and everyone else had 'What the Hell' looks on their faces.
Naruto looked at the bow in his hands before shaking his head and went to get some more arrows.
After that lesson word quickly spread at how great Naruto turned out to be with a bow which gave him a lot of attention from the Apollo cabin.
A member from the Apollo cabin Lee Fletcher congratulated Naruto on his great five arrow bull's eye and told him he was welcomed to train with the Apollo cabin whenever he liked since the camp doesn't get that many prodigies in archery other than those in the Apollo cabin.
Naruto happily accepted and quickly made another new friend with the son of Apollo.
Artemis, Apollo and Hestia smiled happy that Naruto was making friends with his family.
After that later in the afternoon everyone was down at the beach. Since it was a warm day Chiron thought it would be a good idea to have canoe racing.
Percy looked up as he found that he was good at all types of events dealing with water.
Since Percy and Naruto were new they thought they would give it a shot. Chiron mainly wanted to see I how the two boys did since they both showed different strength and weaknesses with Naruto being great with a bow while Percy not so much.
Everyone began snickering when they remembered what happened to Percy while the boy mentioned pouted.
Naruto sat in the canoe as he pattled with the oar on the right side of the canoe. His limits in patience were being slightly tested here since Naruto had quickly discovered he was not that great at canoeing.
He was not terrible but he was struggling with keeping the canoe to go straight. Thankfully he was glad he was not as bad as those from the Apollo and Dionysus cabin who were just paddling around in circles.
The other gods snickered as this fact about Apollo and Dionysus' kids.
On the shore everyone from campy were on the beach either watching the race or in the daughters of Aphrodite's case lounging on the sand sun bathing in their bikini's.
Athena and Artemis rolled their eyes at this.
Only Silena was the only one from her cabin not wearing swim wear but did opt to wear more sun worthy clothes and was paying attention to the race and was giggling at how flustered and annoyed Naruto was getting.
Silena giggled at this while Artemis seemed to be studying the girl.
"This is getting ridiculous" he grumbled. Far ahead in front was Percy who seemed to be in his element. Naruto couldn't help but noticed that anything water based Percy just seems to excel at. Whether it was swimming, diving, or now canoeing.
Poseidon and Percy smiled brightly at this.
Percy's face was elated that he finally had something he could show everyone he was good at. While canoeing would not have been his first choice it was still a good feeling to be first at something for once like Naruto had been earlier that day.
Meanwhile as Naruto paddled coming up from behind him and passing him was Clarisse who had a victorious smirk on her face.
"Looks like canoeing is not one of your strong suits huh ninja boy" she said chucking as she splashed a bit of water at him with the oar.
Fed up Naruto threw the oar into the canoe getting a few looks from those watching on the shore.
Everyone but Athena thought: 'What is he doing?'. While Athena thought: 'Is going he to do what I think he is going to do?'
"That's it I'm doing this my way" he said and then stood up a little shakily, sent some chakra to his feet before stepping out of the canoe and onto the water.
'He is.' Athena thought with a smirk for being correct.
When he stood on the water all those on the beach stopped what they were doing and looked at him with disbelief on their face.
Just like Grover and the Demi-gods were now. 'That's so not fair.' was their collective thought.
"No frickin way" he heard one person say as Naruto took his shirt off since he was beginning to sweat a lot from the heat and then picked up the canoe, put it over his head before he began running on the water.
Back on the shore Mr D who was sitting in a deck chair with diet coke in his hands began laughing at the look on everyone's face and mentally congratulated Naruto on putting on a good show for them since canoe racing was usually very dull.
Dionysus was doing the same now as well.
Percy who had just crossed the finished line and was being congratulated by Chiron saw Chiron's look of surprise and turned around and couldn't help but burst out laughing when he saw Naruto running on the water coming in second and giving Clarisse a sly grin causing said girl to throw her oar in the ocean and throw a bit of a tantrum.
Everyone snickered while Clarisse growled angery about being showed up again.
Once finished he and Percy then walked towards the beach and Naruto had to blush slightly when he saw many of the girls from all different cabins have a predator like look on their face while Silena was blushing madly.
Artemis growled at the thought of someone taking her baby boy from her as she held Baby Naruto closer to her who gurgled happily. Hestia sliently cracked up laughing when she saw what Artemis did.
It was then that he remembered he was not wearing a shirt and quickly took off to put one on causing a groan of disappointment from said girls.
However those that weren't fawning over Naruto physique were left slightly put back when they saw the big fist sized scar on his chest that was a few inches above his heart.
Everyone's face harden at this new bit of information.
Annabeth was studying the scar with wide eyes trying to figure out what weapon could make such a scar. Even Clarisse who had finally finished and was walking back saw the scar and winced at the sight of it.
Many were left wondering how he received it and more importantly how on earth he managed to survive an injury like that. They wanted to go and ask Naruto about it but a stern look from Mr D and Chiron told them to leave it be.
This surprised Grover and the Demi-gods who knew Dionysus as he normally didn't care for demi-gods.
After that many of the campers had questions for Naruto but subtly he managed to get out of them by either changing the subject or giving them an answer but not the one they were looking for or that answered the question. His scar was becoming a fast topic amongst the campers, mainly the Ares cabin who had told him what a badass scar it was.
Clarisse nodded agreeing with her future self.
Clarisse told him also that anyone who could survive a scar like that and keep on fighting was okay in her books. The two had a spar later that night that was swords only and despite not quite being on the same level of swordsmanship as Clarisse was she had to admit for someone who never used a sword before she was slightly impressed that he managed to keep up.
Plus she knew if it was an all out fight or hand to hand combat Naruto would have the advantage.
That surprised her but she gave him a nod of respect. Clarisse despite not being overly friendly with many in camp other then Silena who Naruto still saw as having a very strange friendship since they were the complete opposite was slightly beginning to see Naruto as a friend though she would not admit it.
Silena smiled happy that her friend had made another friend besides her.
Then the next day while Percy was having a sword fighting lesson with the Hermes cabin, Naruto passed on it since he practised with Clarisse the day before and decided to take the offer of Pegasus riding from Silena.
Naruto stood in the stables with Silena as he watched her demonstrate how to put a saddle on the back of a Pegasus. She had been demonstrating for the last ten minutes and while Naruto was paying attention he couldn't but get a little side tracked when he ended up staring at how pretty she was.
Silena blushed brightly at this while Artemis' eye narrowed as her arms tighten slightly around Baby Naruto making Hestia who has just calmed down to burst out laughing again. Though Zoe's eyes narrowed as well but at the fact that this sentence made it seem like Naruto was like all the other males out there.
Of all the girls in the Aphrodite cabin, despite the girls being very nice and friendly they could all be a little high maintenance and needy and all they ever seemed to do was check their reflection in anything with a mirror service. But yet Silena was a little different and preferred to walk her own path then the one she was expected off from a daughter of Aphrodite.
This statement caused Athena and Artemis to blink. 'A daughter of Aphrodite not like all of her other children?' they thought.
"You understand everything I just said?" she asked Naruto whose mind was elsewhere at that moment before shaking his head.
"Sorry say that again?" he said but Silena rolled her eyes.
"Never mind. Come on lets go flying" she said in a cheery voice as she and Naruto led to Pegasi out of the stables.
Silena would be riding the beautiful white horse that Naruto had petted the other day who Silena had named Moonshine which got a laugh from Naruto.
This caused all of the other gods to start laughing expect for Azrtemis who deadpanned while Silena blushed.
But it was nothing compared to the horse he would be riding. He was riding a beautiful light brown horse with chestnut brown eyes that was named Porkpie.
When they were out of the stables and were in a nice clear area both slowly and carefully mounted their pegasi. Silena was on it on seconds since she was pretty much a professional by now but Naruto took a bit longer since he wanted to be careful and not mess up.
Artemis smiled happy that her son cared for Animals.
After about a minute both were mounted. Naruto was a little nervous since this would not only be his first time on a Pegasus but also his first time flying. Silena could see that he was a little nervous so she trotted up next to him and put her hand on his shoulder.
"It's okay. I was alittle nervous at first too. Just trust in your Pegasus and you will be fine" she said with Naruto giving her a grateful nod. For Silena it was a little nice seeing Naruto look a little more human since ever since he came here he always seemed so fearless and superhuman. It was refreshing to see that despite him being a little more powerful and different from the other demi gods; he was still just like all of them in the end.
"Just watch me and then copy it" she said. Before Naruto could ask any questions Moonshine had already started running. Then their wing spread out and started flapping and then was gliding upwards into the air.
Naruto watched intently as they took off before he looked dead ahead of him. "I can do this" he said before looking down at the Pegasus. "Take care of me here buddy. It's my first time." The Pegasus whinnied as if saying 'no problem'.
'I wonder when he'll be able to talk to animals.' Artemis thought to herself.
He took a deep breath and before he knew it Porkpie was galloping. Then the Pegasus's brown wings extended and began flapping. He could hear the hoofs of the Pegasus hitting the ground before all of a sudden there was nothing. He then looked around amazed when he saw he was now off the ground and Porkpie was getting higher in the air.
Apollo whooped excitedly while Artemis shook her head at her fool of a brother but smiled at her son accomplishment.
Silena then appeared next to them and gave Naruto a big smile which Naruto happily returned.
The route they took went all over the camp and Naruto saw just how big the camp was. He saw all the campers rushing around and looked like tiny ants. He then looked over to the arena. If he squinted enough he swore he could see Percy.
Then Porkpie broke off from Silena and Moonshine and headed over towards the ocean. It flew over and began lowering itself until its hoofs were just about scratching the service of the ocean.
Naruto looked around all amazed and felt the cool wind hitting his face. He extended his arms out just like the Pegasus was doing before shouting "THIS IS AMAZING."
Everyone smiled happy that Naruto was having a good time.
The only word he could use right now was that it was exhilarating. They flew around for another thirty minutes before Naruto looked over towards the stables and saw Silena had landed and thought that maybe it was time to come down too.
The Pegasus whinnied as if it understood him before it began to lower to the ground. After a minute of circling the area it touched back down on the ground and when it stopped Naruto carefully and slowly got off.
"Amazing huh?" Silena said appearing next to Naruto.
"That was amazing. Being in the air like that, I have honestly never felt so alive."
"It's an amazing feeling. Now you know why I love it so much. I hope we can ride together again soon." she said.
"Sure I would like that." he said getting a small twinge of pink to appear on his face which also happened to Silena. The two then headed back into the stable.
Everyone besides Silena and Artemis as they were to busy blushing and frowning respecifully.
After that the day went pretty quickly. When he went back to the Hermes cabin he met with Percy who just finished his sword lesson. He said how he fought Luke who had been names the best swordsman in the last three hundred years which impressed Naruto.
So was everyone else.
Then Percy told Naruto how he suddenly had this surge of energy after drinking water. This made Naruto think. This was the second time in the past few days that Percy had done something amazing with water. Plus there was also the incident back at the museum and the fact that Percy was just amazing with or in water.
This caused everyone to look at Poseidon.
Naruto for now put it to the back of his mind for something to think about later.
It was now evening time in the camp and everyone had just finished their dinner at the pavilion and everyone one was once again located in the amphitheatre.
As usual the Apollo kids were going to start singing but were debating about what songs they should sing this time around. Even Mr D had decided to join them although he didn't look too happy and scowled most of the time.
Just as the Apollo kids were about to get up and start singing Clarisse voice called out.
"WAIT" she shouted getting odd looks from everyone.
"Is everything okay Clarisse?" Chiron asked trotting next to the girl.
"Its fine but I thought maybe we could do something a little different tonight" she said getting interesting glances from everyone.
"Hmm" Chiron said tapping his chin. "What did you have in mind exactly?" he asked hoping it was not anything that involved bloodshed but then saw Clarisse point over to Naruto causing the blonde to look at her in confusion.
Athena and Annabeth's eyes lite up as they realized what Clarisse had in mind.
"Naruto you said that you're a shinobi from this other world right?" She said getting a nod from him. "Then you must have gone on some pretty cool mission or quests right?" Now that caused everyone to perk up and look towards Naruto who was thinking.
"Hmm well there were a few pretty high class missions I went on before I came to this world. If you want me to tell you about any mission then I could tell you about the mission in wave country. That was one hell of a mission and will get your heart pumping. I don't mind telling you all since it had quite a dramatic effect on me. Would this be okay Chiron?"
Chiron looks thoughtful for a moment before he gave the nod that it was okay. Everyone cheered as Naruto got up and decided to take a seat next to the fire giving it that more story telling effect.
Everyone instantly leaned forward in anticipation.
Every one of the campers began huddling together getting ready to hear the story. Annabeth and Grover sat next to Percy while everyone else was with their cabin. Even Mr D glanced over. Then from the woods the nymphs and some other satyrs came over to listen to the story.
Naruto looked around seeing everyone looking at him before he took a deep breath.
"The mission was very simple. It was a C Ranked mission that required us to simply escort a bridge builder by the name of Tazuna from the Leaf village to his home town in a neighbouring country called Wave Country. The team consisted of myself, a boy called Sasuke Uchiha, a pink haired girl called Sakura Haruno and our team sensei and leader Kakashi Hatake. As you would expect we were all excited since this was the first time we would be out of the village and the trip would take at least three days to get there and three days to get back."
"So we set off and within a few hours we already ran into some trouble" he said getting excited looks from everyone. "A duo of missing shinobi from Water country called the Demon Brothers were lying in wait and used an illusion to hide themselves. When we went passed they revealed themselves. They attacked and ripped Kakashi to shreds with spiked chains" he said getting small gasps from people that there was a death this early.
Grover and the Demi-gods gasped as well while the gods tensed.
He was about to continue before the fire next to him erupted causing many to jump. In the flames there were little figures and Naruto recognised that they were people from the story. Naruto grinned a little that the fire would help him tell the story. He had a feeling that everyone sitting around him were not the only ones listening to the story.
Everyone looked at Hestia who smiled brightly.
"I tried to fight but seeing them take care of Kakashi caused me to freeze up but Sasuke attacked and kept them at bay. It was then that Kakashi appeared and took them out with no trouble."
"But you just said-"
"Let me explain. Kakashi knew they were there and saw the illusion and made a clone of himself before hiding in the forest to observe what they were after. They were after the bridge builder. He had lied about the rank of the mission because his home down didn't have the money. He explained to us that a big business tycoon called Gatou had pretty much taken control of the town and was making people pay fines and taxes leaving them without money and food and leaving many on the streets and left to starve. He had mercenaries do his dirty work for him."
"Bastard/Coward." were the response to this.
"After we heard the story we decided to press on and continue with them mission with it now being an A ranked mission instead of C ranked. After two days of travel we were just outside Tazuna's hometown. It was then that we met him."
"Who?" Everyone asked at the edge of their seats, even Mr D.
"We were met by another missing shinobi but he was an A ranked shinobi and therefore very powerful that was hired by Gatou. A man who earned his shinobi status by killing all his classmates in school" he said getting looks of horror from everyone. "A man who was a member of the Seven Shinobi Swordsman of the Mist and therefore was an elite swordsman in his own right as he wielded a six foot butcher's knife and had earned the name Demon of the Bloody Mist. His name was Zabuza Mamochi."
In the fire the figure of a very bulked up man wearing a mask that covered his lower face and wielding a sword as big as his body appeared. Those that weren't shivering before were now. The mere sight of his sword was terrifying. Even Clarisse had that look that said she would think twice before going up against that.
Everyone but Ares and Baby Naruto shuddered at the mere description. Ares for obvious reasons and Baby Naruto because he had no idea what was going on.
"So Kakashi engaged Zabuza and they fought through a mist Zabuza created that made Kakashi have to rely on his Sharingan. A bloodline from the Uchiha clan that let the user copy moves and see someone's chakra network. They fought while we guarded Tazuna but then Kakashi fell into a trap and was imprisoned in water."
Gasps rung out since they knew with Kakashi trapped the others would have to fight him. "We knew we couldn't beat straight forward so we came up with a plan. I disguised myself as a giant shurikan with the transformation jutsu and Sasuke threw me along with another towards Zabuza. Since he had to keep his hand on the water prison to keep Kakashi trapped he could not move but managed to avoid them. However when I went passed I transformed back and threw a kunai at him. Zabuza couldn't dodge it like before and had to let go of the jutsu. When he did Kakashi was freed."
Grover, the Demi-gods and Baby Naruto cheered. The goddesses all cooed at the baby but Aphrodite was more like a squeal.
Cheers rang out threw the arena since now with Kakashi free he could get some payback. "They returned to their fighting and finally with help from his sharingan Kakashi managed to defeat Zabuza but was left exhausted afterwards. When he was about to make the final blow a hunter shinobi came in and finished it saying he had been hunting Zabuza. He took the body and disappeared and we continued with our mission and got to Tarzana's home where we met his daughter Tsunami and grandson Inari."
"We learnt the hardships they went through since Gatou had killed Inari's father figure and had publicly crucified him in front of everyone simply because he stood up to Gatou. Also we thought about the hunter nin who took Zabuza's body. When a hunter nin kills someone they are suppose to destroy the body on the spot and take back evidence of the kill but this one took the body with him. It was then that we realised"-
"Zabuza was alive." Athena said beating Hermes to the punch.
"Zabuza was alive" Annabeth said beating Naruto to the punch while Naruto nodded and more gasps were heard.
"Like mother, like daughter." Apollo mocked only to be attacked by a pack of owls.
"So for the next week we trained to be ready for Zabuza and the hunter nin who we thought must have been his accomplice. During one of those days I met someone in the woods where I trained and they asked me if I knew what true strength was. The person told me their name was Haku and lived nearby. Haku told me that true strength came when protecting someone precious to you. It was not until later that I realised just how right Haku was."
The fire then showed the person Naruto was referring to as Haku and many of the boys blushed. Naruto saw this and smirked. "By the way Haku was a boy" he said shocking all the boys who had been blushing and were now looking away which included Mr D while some of the girls were even a little envious off his girly features.
"On the last day of the week I rested while my team went to the bridge to protect Tazuna. It was then that two mercenaries tried to break in and hurt Tsunami and Inari but Inari was standing up to them trying to protect his mom. I showed up and managed to fight them off. Knowing something was wrong I went to the bridge and found Zabuza had returned and was fighting Kakashi while Sasuke was fighting the hunter nin.
"I went to help Sasuke but the opponent was strong. The masked figure had a bloodline that let them control ice and could move at great speed through the ice mirrors that they created that formed a dome of ice around us. We fought and fought but Sasuke got badly hurt and I believed he was dead. In my rage my powered peeked and I managed to land a deadly punch to their face and knocked him out of the ice dome. The mask then cracked and in front of me was none other than Haku" he said making many eyes widened at the revelation including Mr D's and Chiron's.
"That's not good." Percy said.
"Haku explained why he was with Zabuza. That Zabuza had given him a purpose in life when Haku lost his family and was a tool to be used for Zabuza to accomplish his dream of defeating the corrupt Mizukage, leader of the hidden Mist village. He wanted me to kill him since he called himself a broken tool but he saw that Zabuza was in trouble. He disappeared and appeared in front of Zabuza and protected him from a killing move from Kakashi. The attack went right through his chest and killed him on impact" Naruto said sadly causing many to have tears beginning to form at Haku's tragic death of just wanting what's best for Zabuza and saw in the fire the figures which re enacted everything Naruto just said.
"It was then that Gatou appeared on the bridge with over a hundred mercenaries and was betraying Zabuza" he said growling which many of the other campers did.
Everyone in the throne room did as well.
"Zabuza after seeing Haku's sacrifice and finally realizing the bond he shared with him began to cry and declared us no longer his enemies. With nothing but a kunai in his mouth since his arms were disabled from Kakashi he charged through the mercenaries hoping to create a small piece of redemption."
"He tore through the mercenaries while getting multiple swords stuck in his back before getting to Gatou and killing him." The fire depicted the whole seen which entranced everyone who watched the ferocious warrior fight to his last breath which many campers marveled at. "When the mercenaries tried to start a fight for Zabuza killing Gatou the entire town turned up and forced them out with our help sending the mercenaries off with their tails between their legs" he said as everyone began cheering but quickly ended when they looked at Naruto's sad face.
"Zabuza was succumbing to his wounds and asked to lie next to Haku's body wanting to die next to the person who followed him to the very end. It even began snowing and we thought the snow was Haku crying for the death of Zabuza. Zabuza asked to go to the place Haku went too before he died. We took their bodies and buried them on a hill overlooking the town with Zabuza's sword marking their graves. We stayed for a few more days to heal and complete the mission before we finally went home" he said signalling it was the end.
Naruto looked up and his eyes widened a little when he saw almost everyone crying at the end of the story; even Clarisse wiped away a stray tear at Zabuza's sacrifice and Haku's tragic death.
"I learnt something very important during that mission" he said getting everyone attention. "You can get strong through training and with will power and determination but you will never be as strong as when you are protecting the people that are precious to you. Whether they are a friend or a family member or even a teacher. The bonds we make with everyone help define us as people. Cherish everyone you form bonds with and live life to the fullest every day."
"He is right." Hestia said as the demi-god looked thoughtful.
Naruto walked back but then saw everyone stand up, look at him and give him a round of applause for both the amazing story and for the little speech which caused many to look a little differently at people and realise what really mattered in the world. They all thanked him for sharing that story and Chiron patted him on the shoulder and thanking him for sharing that with everyone.
Naruto rejoined Percy and talked with Grover and Annabeth as the evening then continued on as everyone spoke about the story they heard and what a defining moment that mission must have been and felt like they all knew Naruto a little better now.
Unknown to all, high on Mount Olympus two women were staring into a window like object that showed the camp and were staring down at Naruto with pride evident in their eyes as they smiled with care and love at him happy with the person he had become.
"That's the end of the chapter." Hermes said placing a bookmark into the book and shut it.
AN: URGH! You have no idea how hard it was to get through this chapter! Which is why I am asking now would any of you mind if I brought in one of my personal Original Characters? And if you don't mind let's see if you can guess her godly parents, yes parents but only one is Greek/Roman. She is technically a demi-god though and her other godly parent is from the other series Rick Riordan does and as another hint they are both female. And for the first person to guess them right before I post the next chapter I will tell you a bit more about them but if no one guesses right well you found in the next chapter.
AN 2: I also need a bit of help for my Will of Valar story. I can't decide what my main character's name should be so I am letting you guys help. There is a poll on my profile so if you guys wouldn't mind could you please vote for a name. Thanks! :)
