Chapter nine.

"How longer are we gonna take?"

"Maybe ten minutes. Twenty. Nobody knows, with the Labyrinth."

I sighed. We were travelling the Labyrinth for five minutes. Not much, if you consider it, but five minutes in the labyrinth meant five hours outside of it. "Perfect." I muttered.

Mrs. O'Leary suddenly stopped. There was a figure in front of us. It had uncountable arms and plain brown (Like in it-has-no-pupils plain brown). Briares, the hundred-handed one Percy and the others had met.

My eyes widened. "Briares! What are you doing here?"

His face changed into smething with a little nose, a sad expression in his lips and his eyes looking down. Maybe a 'full of shame' expression. "I want to help the Cyclops and the others that were with him."

Daealus smiled. "Sure. Follow us, Briares."

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Briares was incredibly fast. He could keep up with Mrs. O'Leary or even go faster than her.

In ten minutes we saw a bunch of monsters going up a ladder in a whole on the roof. The entrance to Camp. Mrs. O'Leary jumped, knocking some monsters out and opened passage through them. I jumped out of her and landed between some Telekhines. Poor bastards, don't know what hit them. I jumped twelve feet into the air and made the necessary hand seal.

"Kage bushin no jutsu!" I shouted. Ten exact copies of mine appeared out of poofs and smoke. They started destroying monsters nonstop until Kampe took them by surprise. The monster flew up to the highest boulder and took out its scimitars. It then jumped and landed in the middle of some demigods.

Let's just say they didn't die of old age.

Two giants charged at me. I released three tails of Kyuubi chakra and expanded the Kyuubi aura in my hands, grabbing them. I then smashed them with Kyuubi's mega-strength. I went back to myself and jabbed my sword through a dracaena that was about to chop my head off behind me. I opened passage through the monsters and saw Briares throwing rocks at Kampe. The rocks expanded and covered the monster. The scimitars glowing green of poison were the only stuff that proved Kampe had already been there. Now there was one more Large bolder there besides the others of Zeus's fist.

A giant swung his club and I saw it hit… Zoe. She flew and hit a tree.

I turned towards the giant, releasing massive waves of killing intent. The giant kneeled and then put both hands on the floor, gasping for air, and then starting to hit himself. I got closed and grabbed his head, then smashed it into the ground. I started to kick it deeper into the ground with my right foot. I focused chakra into my right fist and punched the giant's head, hard, into the floor, transforming it into golden dust. I ran towards Zoe. She was half-conscious there was blood in her t-shirt, like if she had coughed up blood and it had landed on her CHB shirt.

"V-Vice?" She asked. "Is that you?"

I nodded. "Zoe, are you Ok?"

She chuckled. "I was hit by a freading giant club. What do you expect?"

My turn to chuckle. "You're right. Though, it's freaking, not freading."

"Oh, right. Now I'm going to sleep, if you don't mind." She said, smiling, and closed her eyes.

I smiled. "'Night".

I then heard the most horrible thing one could've imagined. Imagine the voice of your best friend trying the sing the acutest note in the universe. Multiply that sound a thousand times in horrible scale. Got it?

Tell you what. What you imagined is nothing compared to what I heard.

It was a mixture of fear and will to live… something like that. I had to cover my ears. The monsters had all gone into the Labyrinth, scared of the sound.

Once the sound stopped I looked down at Zoe's sleeping figure.

"Damn, Zoe. You've got some heavy sleep there." I muttered. I grabbed her bridal style and led us towards where Percy was together with Annabeth, Nico, Grover, Juniper and some other campers. Daedalus stood in the middle.

"Your time has come long ago. Rest." Said Nico.

Daedalus smiled. His body got transparent, revealing the engine that kept him alive. Then, the whole automaton fell apart in ashes.

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Two weeks had passed since the battle. The Labyrinth had fell apart together with Daedalus and there had been the funeral of the campers that had died. Between them, Castor-A son of Mr. D. His father wasn't the perfect person, but Castor was pretty cool. Well, was. There was also Lee. The poor guy had died knowing someone-me-was better than him. Poor dude.

Zoe had been in coma ever since the battle. An Apollo guy said she hadn't any risks of dying nor of losing memory or anything, but the body needed to regenerate a kidney with the help of Ambrosia. I tried to tell him that I could cure her in the blink of an eye and that I had done it before, but he said that such energy would be no good to her body in that state.

Anyways, I was heading towards the big house to pay Zoe one of my daily visits.

Once I got to her room I saw her, as always, deep in her sleep. I grabbed a bench and sat next to Zoe's bed. I grabbed her hand and started to squeeze it. That's what I usually did, sat there, squeezing her hand, and didn't say a word.

Her hand started squeezing mine back. I widened my eyes.

"Zoe?" I asked.

She opened her eyes and sat with a start. She rubbed her head. "Uh… where am I?" She glanced at me and her eyes twinkeled. "Vice!" She hugged me.

"So you finally woke up…" I said, hugging her back.

"Uh? I see Zoe finally woke up, then." Said the Apollo medic from behind us. We broke apart and saw him standing in the doorway, smiling. "Well," He started, walking towards us and stopping at the side of the bed. "I was waiting for you to wake up in order to give you two Zoe's diagnostic. We got a bit of a surprise when it came out. Well, I'll read it for you." He got out a piece of paper out of his trousers. "Well, Zoe. Your condition is stable, though you should stay in bed for some more days. And… here comes the hard part for you." He sighed. "Zoe, for some miracle, your baby is alive."

Wait. Baby??????? WTF????

"W-Wait. Y-You s-s-said Z-Zoe is p-p-pregnant?" I stuttered.

The guy-I think his name was Bill or something-nodded. "Three weeks, now."

What? No way Zoe got pregnant in the first time we did it

Needless to say, my mind went blank.

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I woke up feeling a lot of headache. I saw Percy standing at the bed's side and noticed I was at the big house.

"Hey, so you finally woke up, sleeping beauty." He mocked. "You've been out for two hours."

"Percy," I heard Annabeth's voice say. "Don't talk to him like that, he's gonna be a father now, right?"

I sighed. "Look, Annabeth. We broke up, Ok? What I do with Zoe has nothing to do with you."

"And you fucked her the first-"

"DON'T TALK LIKE THAT!" I screamed.

She shut up and stormed off the room. Percy sighed.

"She's been like this ever since she found out about… you know." He said.

I nodded and sighed. "I never wanted this, but I think it'll be a good thing. And where's Zoe?"

He stepped aside to let me take a look on the bed on the other side, where Zoe rested. "She's been out the same time as you."

I nodded and got up, grabbed a chair and sat beside her. I put a hand over her stomach and started to caress it.

"It's just that… I'm gonna be a father at fifteen… It'll be difficult." I said.

Percy smiled. "No worry, Vice. I'll help you with your kid every time I can. At summer, of course. While in school year I think I'll come in the winter. You'll stay here, right?"

I nodded. "I think that school will be difficult having a kid and all."

"Uh... what happened?" I heard Zoe say. I looked at her. She was rubbing her head and slowly opening her eyes. She looked at me and smiled. "Hey, Vice."

"Welcome back." Both me and Percy said. Zoe noticed I was caressing her stomach. She put a hand over mine.

"I… I just can't believe it." She said dreamily. "We're gonna have a kid…"

"Zoe… aren't you concerned?" I asked. "We're too young to have a kid, right?" I then looked at her and blushed. "Well, I'm too young to have a kid. But nonetheless… this is gonna be a difficult thing to do. Raise a kid."

She smiled. "Vice… I know that, but don't think about the bad things… think about the good things this baby will bring."

I smiled. "You're right, Zoe. I'm caring too much."

"And," Percy said. "I promised I will help you at winter with your baby. And possibly at summer."

Zoe nodded. "Thank you, Percy."

I appreciated how Zoe could change of attitude so fast. I mean, in a semester she passed from boys are jackasses to I'm pregnant with the boy I love.

This was a new start. I would get a new life now. I think I accomplished the mission Naruto had given me to restore the Namikaze clan. To missions to accomplish, now. One: Hiroki's (the guy that wrote some prophecy in his own blood) mission for me to become the most powerful being in the world. That one would be difficult. And the other one would be Amaterasu's mission.

Beware me, Uchiha Sasuke.

End of book, guys. Sorry this last chapter was so short, but I'm sleepy and without quite some inspiration right now. Anyways, review!