Reading: Sun's Heir, Death's Guardian II: A Hero's Peril
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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
"This isn't over, Namikaze!" snarled Kiba as he, a whimpering and muzzled Akamaru as well as a frowning Shikamaru were marched into the Camp. Along with the bronze chains, chakra-restraining tags were placed along their body, a good-sized amount of tags were given to small squad sent to retrieve Choji alive under Jason's order.
"Listen to the whiner," Ares jeered. He crossed his arms with a grunt, "Prisoners don't have the right to backtalk."
"It's Uzumaki," Naruto corrected as he shoved the bound Kiba forward, "Now keep moving Kibble-Breath."
The members of the Fifth Cohort who had been around when Naruto was at Jupiter five years ago were all delighted to see their former member, including the hyperactive Kool-Aid addict that was their senior centurion, Dakota.
Jason let out a small laugh at his friend. Percy smiled along with him and the rest of the Roman demigods.
Though, Dakota was saddened to learn it was one of his kin that had threatened the camp. He had personally volunteered to go and retrieve Choji from where he had landed.
"True, it would be something a legionnaire would do," said the Praetor as he nodded.
At the sound of armor clanking upon becoming straight and disciplined, Naruto turned to see more familiar faces, one in particular causing his face to split into a wide grin.
"And the protagonist and love interest meet once more," Aphrodite smiled.
Thalia frowned a bit, not liking where this was going.
"Rey-chan!" he exclaimed joyfully, abandoning his post in escorting the new prisoners to greet the girl.
"There's that pet name," said Piper with a smile, glad her other didn't have to deal with Reyna liking Jason.
"Quiet." Thalia told her with a frown.
"Someone seems upset~!"
"Shut it lover girl."
Scowls from the other ready cohorts showed their disapproval at the informal greeting,
Jason sighed. "Definitely the carefree type," he said, but there was a touch of amusement in his tone.
while others (mostly those from the Fifth) fought back laughter at the normally stoic girl giving a small smile to the blond.
"I think an angel just got its wings." Leo said, snickering.
"True," the thunder boy said with a quirked lip of his own. "She is very formal."
"Naruto Uzumaki," She greeted before clearing her throat and giving him an expectant look. Jason slipped over to her side, his smile dimming to a serious brood that looked almost forced.
"Meh, it becomes easy after time," said Jason with a small shrug.
"I could not deal with that," said Percy, his head shaking in disagreement.
Naruto sheepishly chuckled before standing at attention, crossing his right arm over his chest with a fist on his left pectoral. He bowed forward slightly as he spoke, "Praetors of Camp Jupiter, thank you for the timely assist and housing my company."
"Rise and be welcomed," Jason and Reyna said together.
"Is it always so formal?" Thalia asked.
Jason nodded, making his sister blanch.
Naruto gave them another smile before his eyes landed on Thalia, who was staring at the other blond in the small group.
"Here it comes." Thalia said, a stoic look upon her visage, getting everyone to pay full attention to the coming scene.
Taking a deep breath, Naruto then said, "Reyna, if you don't mind...I need to borrow Jason for a little bit."
"I suppose I can allow it," Reyna replied with a hint of disappointment,
"Yeah, real disappointed I bet." Piper whispered with a roll of her eyes, she was rooting for other Thalia all the way.
"I'll make sure the prisoners are properly secured."
"Alive as well," Jason said with a frown, "I still don't understand your reasoning, Naruto."
"I'll explain it later," the older blond said as Reyna left to ensure the prisoners would be properly taken care of...short of death. Naruto looked at other members of the Legion, before looking back to Jason and asking, "Think you can get them to leave us alone for like...five, ten minutes?"
"I am a Praetor," Jason reminded the blond.
"Nice cape Superman!" Leo said with his thumbs up, making his buddy laugh a little.
"Psh, since when?" jokingly replied the older teen. Jason rolled his eyes before issuing an order to return to Camp, while Naruto went to Thalia and Piper.
"Naruto...I...Is...Is that?" Thalia was at a loss for words as she watched the blond teen issue commands.
Thalia gripped Jason's hand tightly and he gave the same grip back.
Above her the sky darkened slowly.
Zeus frowned slightly, the emotional turmoil of his children always brought out the worse of the sky and it both delighted and saddened him at the long awaited reunion. Perhaps, it was even more proper then the one his children here had.
"It is," confirmed the older blond before he stepped to the side as Jason returned, "Jason Grace, Praetor of Camp Jupiter. Meet my companions, first, Piper McLean."
"So, love at first sight?" their fiery friend asked, getting both to blush lightly, but Piper was smiling brightly despite it.
"Hello," Jason greeted with an offered hand and a smile. As Piper took his hand, Jason stared into her kaleidoscopic eyes in awe for a brief moment, snapping out of it when she spoke.
"Oh he likes~" the love goddess gushed, getting her daughter to silently cheer for her other.
Jason smiled as well, wondering how they would get together without Hera interfering.
"Nice to meet you," Piper returned with her own grin before Naruto cleared his throat.
The two younger teens released each other's hands and looked to the blond. Naruto then looked to the raven-haired girl, her blue eyes misting slightly and biting her lip like she wanted to keep from crying.
The Grace siblings moved closer together, but Thalia could truly relate to her other right now. While she didn't cry, but with a meeting like this? How could her other not?
Jason followed Naruto gaze and when his eyes locked with the older girl's, he felt something akin to familiarity. As a tear rolled down the raven-haired girl's cheek, Jason felt the urge to make her smile as the clouds gathered overhead.
"Aww," cooed the women and girls, making Jason blush as Thalia smiled to her brother softly.
"Jason, I promised you a long time ago that I would reunite you with your sister," Naruto began, moving to stand behind Jason
"He did?!" the demigods said in surprise.
"Well, he did know Thalia and then Jason, no doubt mentioning her to him I bet," Hermes said with a nod.
"Very possible." Artemis nodded in agreement, even though Thalia was not her hunter in that dimension, she was still happy she reunited with her brother in better circumstances then the last.
and looking at the girl as rain began to fall,
"Think that's happy rain?" Percy asked.
"Shut it fish boy!"
"Jason, meet Thalia Grace, the Daughter of Zeus. Thalia-chan...Say hello to your little brother, Jason Grace, the Son of Jupiter."
"Much better intro then ours," Thalia mumbled, her brother hearing her as he felt her grip tighten.
"Yeah," he told her soothingly, "But so worth it either way."
Thalia just nodded.
Jason and Thalia stared at each other for a moment before one of them moved. Jason nearly fell over when Thalia bowled into him, wrapping her arms around him tightly, and tears falling down her cheeks.
"You go girl," Thalia whispered, a sad smile on her face as she felt jealous that her other met her lost sibling so early, but snuffed out the feeling. This was a good thing, no other way about it.
Jason failed to speak as Thalia cried while hugging him and repeated two words, "You're real."
"That I am," Jason smiled softly.
"Y-Yeah..." Jason finally managed to say as he hugged her back, tears of his own starting to form as he choked out, "I-I'm real."
"Aww, I've never seen you cry before." Piper teased her now pink-cheeked boyfriend. "Very manly."
"Thanks Pipes."
"Hey!"
Naruto and Piper watched the two siblings interact, the younger demigoddess moving to stand to the blond's side in an effort to become shielded from falling water.
"Nice evasive maneuvers Piper," Leo smirked.
"I try."
She looked up at the older teen, nudging him in the side and getting his attention, "Did you really promise him to reunite him with his sister?"
Naruto didn't reply for a moment, his smile dying and his eyes becoming sad, "Yeah."
"Oh it is coming soon, I can taste it!"
"Oh by order, shut up for once Aphrodite," the mood goddess bemoaned, it was a touching moment and now she was ruining it!
"Wow...You should work for Hallmark," Piper commented with a small smile.
"Nice one Piper," Apollo said with two thumbs up, getting a smirk from the child of love.
Naruto's mouth twitched upwards at the joke. Unnoticed in the rain, his sunny sky blue eyes remained a depressed shade of blue as he watched the two children of the woman named Grace reunite.
Thalia's closed eyes opened once more and locked with her boyfriend's through the rain.
"And here it is," Thalia whispered, both slightly hoping her other let the blond have it, but also stay with him since he was good for her. She knew that, very much so.
A second passed and Naruto prepared himself as he saw the connections start to be made. Her brow furrowed in confusion before narrowing in anger. Forcing herself out of Jason's grasp, Thalia pushed past with a glare meeting Naruto's eyes.
"You son of a bitch," she hissed as she approached him.
"Hey," Apollo said in a stern tone.
"Hey," Thalia returned back, "I'm pissed, I'm entitled to say anything right now." She argued sternly, getting a light glare from her archery half-brother.
There was a boom of thunder and Thalia gave her boyfriend an accusing finger, "You knew. You knew and you didn't tell me!"
Thalia mumbled out a "Jerk" feeling upset along with her other at the boy she seemed to love and trust. She blinked, her cheeks flushing as she corrected herself: the boy her other seemed to love and trust.
Naruto said nothing, his sad smile matching the emotions in his eyes. Thalia continued to glare at him before storming off in the other direction without another word being said.
"Doesn't she normally hit him?" Nico asked in a stage whisper, getting nods all around except a glare from Thalia.
Jason found himself once more searching for words, looking between his leaving sister and his friend. Naruto nodded once, a silent instruction sending the younger blond after his furious older sister.
"W-What just happened?" Piper asked, looking up at Naruto, "Is...Is she mad at you?"
"No Piper, what gave it away?" the hunter asked sourly.
"Well excuse me for just knowing you for a day," the child of love said with a roll of her eyes.
"Yeah..." Naruto sighed out, wiping water from his eyes, "Furious if I'm reading the wind speed right."
"It's how we measure your mood all the time," Hades told his youngest brother, getting rumbling glare from the King.
"And that just proves it," Poseidon added as the winds outside Olympus sped up.
Zeus just grumbled, huffing with crossed arms.
"But...she didn't hit you?"
"Piper agrees with me."
"Shut up corpse breath."
"Nope."
"Doesn't she normally?"
"See, violence is a staple for you." Nico mocked his cousin.
"Oh I swear, di Angelo!"
"Let's just listen to the story." Percy interjected.
"Yep."
"...Is that bad?"
"For you? No." Naruto left the question directed towards himself be unanswered and after a moment he turned towards Camp Jupiter, "Come on. Let's go talk to Rey-chan."
"Rey-chan? What? Is she an ex-girlfriend or something?" Piper asked, making note of the suffix he used.
"Ah, that inner love sense is tingling already." Aphrodite cooed as Piper blanched at the thought.
"Nope," Naruto said as they walked away from the coming storm.
"Thalia! Thalia, wait up!" Jason called out to his still storming away sister, clouds gathering above her as she marched.
"Geez, don't poke the growling tiger Jason," Leo whispered, getting Thalia to frown at the elf boy.
"No comments matchstick."
"Fine, sorry." The pyro said with not much sorry in his tone.
He groaned before shooting ahead in a burst of speed, stopping in front of her as he doubles over and pants, "Just...Just give me a second." Recovering his breath from the forced application of the wind rather than the proper method he had been using,
"So a wind speed boost, nice," Thalia complimented, never thinking of that. Well, she never really used her wind before, so she might never to be honest. But who knows what the future holds.
Jason asked as he stood upright, "What did Naruto do?"
"Uh, opened that can of worms, big time," Hermes winced.
"What did he do? He...He fucking lied to my face!" Thalia had tears of rage, depression and joy being held back by sheer will, "He knew you were alive and kept me in the dark! Me! I thought we were past all that, but he is still keeping secrets from me!"
"'He still is'," said Thalia, pointing out that phrase.
"Oh, stop being so negative about it." Aphrodite huffed, "Secrets make a couple interesting."
The hunter huffed back, "Well, I'd rather had not have my other deal with that."
"So? Everyone's got secrets," Jason replied in confusion.
"You don't keep your girlfriend's brother still being alive a secret, Jason!" Thalia shouted, causing a bolt of lightning to crash down nearby.
The hunter girl nodded to this, very eagerly in fact. Naruto messed up, big time.
Jason's mouth moved but no words came out. Finally, he managed a surprised, "G-Girlfriend?"
"Didn't see that one coming, did he?"
"Sure didn't." Nico nodded to the Latino boy.
"Oh shut it," Jason frowned at them, getting the two to snicker.
"Not for much longer!" exploded the raven-haired demigoddess along with a boom of thunder.
"Say it isn't so?" the lady of doves bemoaned at the loss of such a cute couple.
"Well...I-I don't know how to reply to that," admitted the Praetor, "But this can't be how you want to end it!"
"…Jason playing Doctor Love?" Leo asked with a blink.
"I can be understanding about these things," said "doctor" pointed out with a stern look. He wasn't romantically naïve.
That was Percy.
"You'd be surprised!" retorted Thalia as the rain started to pour down harshly, reflecting her emotions. Jason was starting to have trouble determining which droplets were tears and which were from the sky.
"All the rain," Thalia swiftly said.
"No, those look like some tears of your own."
"Screw off wethead!"
"There has to be a reason why he kept it from you!" Jason said, nearly shouting, as the wind picked up. He could suppose this was why Lupa would send him outside when he would have temper tantrums.
"Jason?" Piper said in surprise.
Leo blinked. "Temper tantrums?"
That just didn't fit together at all!
The blond in question huffed. What? He was a little kid once, it happened.
"I had a right to know that my little brother was still alive!"
"You did!" agreed the younger Grace, "You had every right to know! But! BUT! Naruto had a reason! He always has a reason for what he does!"
"Wow," Annabeth whistled out. "You're defending him so readily." She wondered what relationship Jason had with the older blond.
"I know," the other blond demigod nodding to her.
"So what? My feelings don't matter?" Thalia raged, "Just his bullshit 'reason'?"
"Exactly." The lightning girl nodded to her other.
"He brought you along when he knew he'd end up here, right?" Jason asked, making Thalia blink,
"He brings up an excellent point," Jason told his sister, "He knew this would happen, yet still did it."
That gave Thalia some pause.
"What does that tell you? He promised to reunite me with my sister and look what he did! Sure it took some time, but kept his promise to me!"
"And I'm sure my other is grateful." Jason whispered to his sister, who looked at him, still frowning a bit, but nodding to him also in understanding.
"I still had a right to know!" Thalia argued.
"Maybe something was keeping him from telling you!" Jason retorted,
"Us." Zeus spoke, getting most of the gods to nod with him. There was a reason why the Greeks and Romans were separated.
"Naruto wouldn't keep this from you unless something made him do so! Give him a chance to explain himself and he will!"
"What do you know?!" the older sister demanded.
"I know that he missed you!" Jason said, making her stare at him in disbelief.
"Go Jason!" Aphrodite cheered, "Save the love! Save it!"
The blond pressed on, "Yeah...All he talked about was you and his sister. She's around my age apparently and her name was...Annabelle?"
"Hey!" 'Annabelle' cried out with a frown.
"What, he said it right," Dionysus said with a sip of his diet coke. Athena sent her once demigod half-brother a glare. It did little towards the plump god.
"Annabeth," Thalia corrected getting Jason to nod.
"Thank you Thalia."
"No problem."
"Okay, Annabeth," amended the blond, "The point is he wouldn't shut up about you!
"That must have been awkward." Percy said, getting the blond Roman to glare at him.
"Don't push it." He told his Greek friend.
He was always smiling when he talked about you two.
The females (besides a pink cheeked Thalia) cooed at that, while Jason frowned a little, feeling protective of his sister all of a sudden.
I was also curious what you were like, so he told me things. Like how you much you loved to practice with your control over lightning...Especially on him since he doesn't like it."
"So Thalia," Annabeth giggled, getting a smirk from her friend.
Thalia smirked as she recalled the small shocks she used to give the blond as they traveled. The way he would yelp and jump behind Annabeth
"And an adorable human shield you must have been."
"Shut up!" Annabeth pouted with pink cheeks to the hunter.
while Luke would tease the older boy, who'd then retaliate with a wedgie or noogie or something along those lines.
Hermes smiled faintly at that. Must have been a sight.
"And then the way you'd...you two would...Well, talk," Jason said while shuffling where he stood as the rain slowed,
"Really, really awkward."
Jason just sent the smiling Percy a darker look then before. The sea child was still smirking sadly.
"The way you'd speculate over what would come after you next...when he talked about you, he just seemed so happy, he spoke with such affection, you know."
Thalia blinked in wonder at that. She had the beginning and the end of how she knew Naruto, but not much of the middle, something she really wanted to see.
Thalia's smirk fell into a soft smile. More than once she and Naruto would lie under the stars looking up, wondering how their fathers acted,
"Not that well." Hera said with a quirked lip.
"Indeed." Artemis mused with a smile.
Both husband and brother huffed with matching pouts.
what the safe place for demigods was.
"Before Grover came in I guess." Annabeth stated softly, remembering those days.
Sharing a few nights alone on watch for monsters, the way she'd wake up in his embrace after some long nights.
"Ooh, ooh." Apollo grinned wolfishly, getting the hunter girl to actually smile at those kind of moments her other got in.
More recent events entered her mind; fighting Ladon along with Zoë, their dance at Christmas,
"We danced at Christmas?" Thalia asked.
Aphrodite squealed in delight. "How romantic~!"
the more embarrassing conclusions to their training sessions, and some of their date nights.
"So basically lip locking?" Nico asked bluntly.
"Shut up."
"Then he'd go on about how you always had this smirk, how your nose scrunched up when you'd get mad, how you woke up more than once lying on his shoulder," Jason rambled before pointing at his now scowling sister, "That's the scrunched up...oh."
"Too much Jason."
"Yeah," the blond nodded to his sister…who in fact had her nose scrunching up. Huh, so it was true.
"I think I get the point," the slightly embarrassed girl said before looking up at the sky, "I hate losing control like that."
"You just needed to calm down," Jason corrected as he held his hand out. Wind gathered in it and started to form a sphere, "Once you're calm, you can do anything."
"Very true," the flying boy smiled.
"Thalia?" Percy asked
"Calm?" Nico smirked.
"Ha, ha," Thalia laughed dryly at her cousins. Little jerks.
"He helped you gain control, too," an impressed Thalia mused before raising a fist and having lightning spark around it, "Lightning's way more fun, though."
"Very true," the father supported.
"You can fly with wind," Jason countered with a smirk.
"Again, true," the Sky Lord nodded.
Thalia's own grin fell slightly, "Yeah...Flying..."
"What? Can't fly yet?" Jason started to tease before he remembered something and he winced, "Right...Acrophobia. You know, I've been wondering how is that even possible, I mean our father is-?"
"Oh even other Jason is ragging on you with that," Annabeth giggled.
"Oh be quiet Annie," Thalia pouted, "Or should I tell some spider stories?"
"Shutting up now."
"Shut up, Jason!" Thalia said with a small frown that could be mistaken for a pout.
"It was a pout," all her friends said as one, getting the hunter to pout at the betrayal.
Jason grinned, "You're the daughter of Zeus, but afraid of heights?"
"I will shock you," Thalia warned.
"It wouldn't hurt me," deadpanned the younger Grace, earning a glare from his sister.
"I'm sorry, for a second I mistook you for the other blond," Thalia snarked.
"Still pissed about Naruto it seems."
"Of course I would be!" Thalia defended her other from the love goddess.
The two siblings stood across from one another, eyes narrowed challengingly at the other before they grinned. They hugged again and after a minute, Jason asked in a hopeful tone, "So...Gonna go forgive Naruto, yet?"
"He really wants you to make up," said Piper with a smirk directed at her boyfriend's sister.
"No," Thalia replied with a frown before asking, "Can we talk about something else?"
"Blunt about it also." Piper said with a frown. She rather liked the couple and hoped it didn't breakup.
"I guess," Jason said in a slightly defeated tone before asking, "So...how was life as a tree?"
"Wow, subtle." Percy nodded, making Jason flush while Thalia looked at him in bewilderment.
"They refuse to tell us anything," Reyna said with a scowl as she, Naruto and Piper stood outside of a holding cell.
"Trained soldiers tend too."
Naruto was leaning against the side of the bars, glaring into the cell at the meditating Shikamaru. The blond's eyes narrowed in thought.
"Do you really have to lock the dog up with a muzzle?" Piper asked as she looked at the giant white dog.
"Normally, no," Naruto said, breaking himself from his musings, "But he's learned to speak. One less annoyance."
"This is why dogs shouldn't talk," Hermes said, "Ever."
"What about Lupa?" asked his Roman demigod half-brother.
"She's a wolf, so it doesn't count."
"Fuck you, Naruto!" Kiba snarled as he glared down at his shackled hands and the tags attached to it.
"Mm, while many may pay to see it, I'm going to have to pass on the request," Naruto replied
"Oh pooh," Aphrodite pouted. It would be spectacular to see how well a lover Naruto was.
The other males in the room disagreed, their faces green at the thought.
before returning his gaze to Shikamaru, "...You can't escape. Our...leaders won't allow it."
"A girl in shiny armor and another pretty boy–!"
"Not a pretty boy," Jason frowned.
Piper rolled her eyes, "You are very handsome."
The golden boy just flushed a little, a pout accompanying his face. He wasn't a pretty boy though!
Kiba was cut off by Shikamaru's voice.
"They're not who he's talking about," replied the meditating teen as his coal eyes looked up and met two sun-filled sapphire orbs, "Something far more powerful is at play here."
"Um, yeah, I would think so," Percy nodded, wow, sad day for these mortals.
"Understatement of the millennia," Naruto mumbled. Looking back to Reyna, the blond said, "They're not going to talk."
"Hm, time to bust out the toolset." Ares grinned wildly.
Leo blanched at the phrase. It is so not cool to use things for creation to pull someone's teeth out!
"How can you be sure?" the Praetor asked.
"The only way that we would get anything is if they told us willingly," replied the blond before an idea struck him. Looking at Piper, Naruto said, "Piper, come here."
"Smart." Athena smirked. "Why be ruthless when you can mind control?"
Ares grunted in disappoint, pansy ass blond, using the cheap way for info.
"Why?" she asked.
"I got an idea," the blond replied, "Ask the mutt what their plan is."
"What?" Both Piper and Reyna chorused.
"Fuck you Naruto!"
"We've been over this," Naruto said to the shinobi before looking back at Piper, "In the nicest, sweetest and most polite manner, ask him what their plan is."
"Show that charm sweetie." The girl's mother smiled brightly.
"Why should I?" Piper inquired as she stepped closer to the cell.
Naruto rolled his eyes, "Because then you would be helpful, I might get an idea as to who your mother is, would you like me to continue?"
"But he already knows." The love child frowned.
"Yes, but even unaware of it, your charmspeak is an excellent tool for interrogation," Athena pointed out, "No doubt Naruto wishes to use it for such ends."
"Huh, Piper, feel like joining the police force? Maybe a district attorney, you'd probably go far as a prosecutor." Leo suggested with an elfish smile.
"Maybe," the daughter of love said with a ghost of a smile on her face.
"...Fine," agreed the girl before looking at the wild looking man. Smiling in a sincerely sweet smile,
"So those sparkling whites~"
"Mom!" Piper cried out in embarrassment.
Piper asked Kiba, "What is your plan?"
"Bust out as soon as possible, subdue Naruto and drag his traitorous ass back to Konoha for trial and to retrieve a blood sample so that the Alliance can use his parent's notes in the Fourth Shinobi War," Kiba answered.
"Not possible." Jason said for the first part.
"Not going to happen." Apollo chuckled. Wow, ninjas were funny.
"He has done nothing wrong, and he has a far more important duty." Zeus continued, getting a nod from his eldest brother.
"Trying to use his blood for some kind of seal lock no doubt," Athena said.
"But to take him and just use his blood for some pointless little war," Hestia said with a shake of her head, these ninja had little tact whatsoever. Why can they not leave the kind boy alone?
Shikamaru looked at him in pure shock while Akamaru growled something in the canine language.
"Yeah, figured as much," Naruto sighed out while Kiba rubbed his head. Looking at Piper, Naruto grinned, "Congrats are in order, your mom is the ultimate manipulator,
"True," was the united tone of the gods besides said goddess, who puffed up with pride.
the Lady of Doves and the fairest of them all.
Hera and Athena scowled at this, but the woman in the dress smiled brightly.
First three guesses don't count."
As Piper furrowed her brow in confusion, Shikamaru stood and pulled Kiba away from the bars. Glaring at Naruto, the squad leader asked, "How did she do that?"
"Genetics." Aphrodite said in a smug tone.
"Keebs is a pervert, he couldn't resist her girlish charms," Naruto replied as he gently pulled Piper away from the cell
"She's more of a tomboy really,"
"Shut up Leo."
"Yes ma'am."
and stood in front of her, "She might be able to ensnare you, too."
"Bullshit," snapped Shikamaru,
"I so could!" Piper argued with a frown, she did not like her skills being dismissed like that.
"What sort of kekkei genkai does she have? Who are the people in charge and where the fuck did you get the strength to flip Choji when he was over one hundred feet tall?"
"…He does know he's the prisoner, right?" Nico asked in a stage whisper.
"One would hope he was smart enough to figure that out." Athena mocked the pineapple boy. Honestly, pineapple shaped hair?
"What you think I'm just going to tell you?" Naruto asked with a smirk, "Like the old me would've? Like an idiot would? Well here's a newsflash, Shikamaru!"
There was a squelching sound and Shikamaru's eyes widened before he looked down and saw a kunai piercing his leg.
Ares cheered at the brutality.
"Show 'em who they be messin' with kiddo." Apollo grinned, he always got annoyed from uppity mortals.
The dark eyes looked up into the sun-encircled blue ones, Shikamaru's gaze was filled with betrayal and confusion while Naruto's were filled with anger. Another squelch was heard and Shikamaru stumbled back, clutching his leg and gritting his teeth.
"I'm not the dobe you can push around or poke fun at, just like you're not the same sarcastic lazy son of a bitch you were all those years ago," Naruto informed the man with accusing eyes.
"Bring in the playground brawls huh?" Ares asked.
"Maybe." Hermes stated.
"I-I'll kill you...Naruto!" The weak voice of the newest occupant said as members of Jupiter's Legion entered. Naruto turned and his gaze softened as the slightly charred body of his childhood friend was carried in. Before he could speak, Reyna stopped the entourage and glared down at the wounded man.
"Be silent," the young warrior scolded, "You've shamed both this camp and your ancestry, at least hold the decency not to disgrace yourself further."
"True, but the guy doesn't even know about his lineage." The Praetor said with a frown.
Dionysus also had this saddened look on his face, despite the fact that he was Roman, he was still of his blood. So having one attack one of the camps inwardly upset him.
"He doesn't even know what you're talking about," interjected the blond demigod as he placed a hand on Choji's head, ignoring the glare he received. Closing his eyes, Naruto softly spoke, "Kind father above, show my foe some love; ensure the pain goes away, I will never turn astray."
"I know you won't." the sun god smiled softly to his kid, he was too good like that.
There was a small bright light from where Naruto's hand pressed against Choji's head. Choji felt the pains of his burns dim to nothing, making him look at Naruto questionably. Patting the large man on the head, Naruto said, "For burning you alive...I am sorry, Choji. Stabbing someone and flaying someone are two different things."
Choji said nothing, falling into a blissful sleep as he was moved into an adjacent cell. Naruto's eyes followed his old friend before looking back to Shikamaru, who was frowning as he tried to figure out what had just happened.
"Like he could," the medicine god scoffed with a smug look on his face.
"You can keep plotting all you like, Konohan," Naruto said with a bit of disgust, "I'll be waiting."
"You can't keep us down here forever, Naruto!" Kiba called after the blond as he and the two girls left the cells, "I will get you for this! NARUTO!"
"No you won't." Deadpanned the demigods.
When Jason offered to show her around the very different Camp Jupiter, Thalia hadn't expected to run into her boyfriend and their younger companion being led around by the other Praetor, Reyna. With her armor off and wearing a bright purple tunic, Reyna was a rather beautiful girl of Hispanic descent with hair nearly as dark as Thalia's own.
"Obviously she's checking the competition pinning for her man."
"Why do you have to speak?!" Thalia bemoaned at the chatty love goddess.
"Because I can, and I will." Was the simple but smirking answer.
She stood at Naruto's shoulder, putting her a good few inches shorter than herself and her equally tall (and still growing) brother.
"You are a bit of a giant, Jay." Thalia teased.
The blond shrugged, "Can't help genetics."
"Which is strange since you were always the shortest of us." Poseidon told his brother in a joking manner.
"Hmph." Was the only answer Zeus gave.
"Thalia-chan," Naruto greeted with a nod as well as a small smile. Thalia nodded curtly to him and Piper before looking expectantly at the other Praetor, to which Naruto introduced them, "Rey-chan, this is my...girlfriend Thalia Grace, Jason's sister and daughter of Zeus. Thalia, this is Reyna, daughter of Bellona the Roman War Goddess."
Athena had contempt written all over her face.
Thalia noticed that something flashed across Reyna's eyes and that the Praetor's eyebrows narrowed slightly when Naruto called her his girlfriend, but her face quickly turned into a small smile, "Welcome to Camp Jupiter, Thalia Grace."
"And that is only the start, the game is afoot for the affections of one Naruto Uzumaki, the demigod with a god inside his soul." The love goddess cooed with glee.
The Lieutenant palmed her face, static coming off her in irritation.
"Just Thalia will do," the raven-haired daughter of Zeus as she returned the smile half-heartedly. It was exactly what she needed right now, a girl with a crush on her idiot.
"We know how you feel." Annabeth and Piper said in stereo, both smirking at the glaring Thalia, most likely deciding which to slap upside the head first for their little comment.
And judging on the pleased grin spreading across Naruto's face, he wasn't even aware of it.
"Ah, the dense type. While sometimes the toughest to get the attention of, they are some of the best out there." The love goddess said, turning to Annabeth, giving the blonde a wink.
Annabeth flushed prettily and turned a small gaze to Percy, smiling softly.
Fantastic. Addressing said idiot, Thalia asked, "So who were our followers?"
"Couple of guys from my hometown inviting me to a party," Naruto said.
Piper scoffed, "More like they were here to drag you to your ordered execution."
"Wow, blunt much Piper?" Hazel asked the love child.
Piper flushed, "Well, I was like, thirteen, and, um," she stammered for an excuse, sadly she couldn't think of one.
"Well thanks for having my back, Pipes!" Naruto chirped sarcastically
"Hey!" Piper pouted, only her dad could call her that! And…maybe Jason, but still!
as Thalia narrowed her eyes on him. In order to appease his girlfriend, Naruto was quick to add, "Look it's nothing to worry about. I sealed off their chakra and Rey-chan has them all under guard by members of the First Cohort, some of the best fighters in the Legion."
"Who did you assign?" Jason asked, getting Reyna to look at him.
"Just Marshal and Douglas," Reyna answered, "We already have them locked up and as Naruto said, he sealed away their sha-kra."
"Chakra," corrected the blond. Naruto opened his mouth to continue when another voice spoke up.
"How dare you show your face here!"
"I wonder who that is." Percy frowned, well, one person came to mind…damn, not him.
"Wonderful, just the person I didn't want to see," Naruto snarked before turning to glare at the newcomer. He was a pale skinny teen just about Thalia's height, with equally pale blond hair and crazed blue eyes that were narrowed onto Naruto's form. A white toga hung over a plain blue shirt and jeans. Thalia noted that there was a tattoo on his arm, of a lyre above the letters SPQR with five lines underneath it.
"Joy." Was the dry chorus of Roman children.
Flanking him were two Roman campers with spears at the ready.
Jason palmed his face, damn that fool and his little flunkies, damn them to the pits.
"You...You and your...Your Greek ideology!" the teen said, "Not to mention bringing enemies into the camp. Apprehend them!"
"He isn't that stupid to make orders with both Reyna and you there, is he?" Piper asked her boyfriend, who nodded.
"Octavian is the stupid type in certain things, like him believing he is in charge being one of them."
"Lower your weapons," Jason ordered the two before glaring at the newcomer, "And you stay out of this, Octavian!"
"See, fool needs to be put in his place from time to time." The golden boy said firmly.
"Your compassion blinds you, Jason!" the teen, Octavian, accused, "You acquaint yourself with the enemy!"
"Oh just shut up you skinny little brat," the child of Jupiter grunted out with a frown adoring his scarred lip.
"Oh shove it up your ass, Octy," Naruto sneered, "Why don't you go play with your stuffed animals?"
"Burn," the Romans mocked with glee.
"You dare insult the Augur of Jupiter?" Octavian asked.
"He's really not." Apollo said.
"He isn't?" Hazel asked in surprise.
Apollo shook his head, "No doubt Naruto will tell the little poser what he really is, or trying to hide the fact of what he really is."
"Sweet."
Oh that is Bull. Shit! Helios raged, This little twat wouldn't know the difference between a fortune cookie and a prophecy if it slapped him in the face!
"…I love Sol." Jason said.
"Agreed." Hazel and Frank said with nods.
"Helios." Apollo said to the Romans, a frown on his face.
"Augur my ass!" Naruto snapped, taking a step towards Octavian as Helios' feelings on the matter influenced him, "You're nothing more than a Haruspex!"
"There you go!"
The Augur looked like an apple he was so red, "You son of a-!"
"Finish that sentence and even the Gods won't save you from my wrath, Octavian!" Naruto warned the teen with murder in his eyes.
"You tell him," Percy frowned, if anyone ever said that about his mom, well, he'd probably be looking like Naruto right now.
If there was one thing Naruto disliked above all else in this Camp it was the great–times however many generations–nephew that stood before him. The two blond descendants of Apollo held murderous gazes while Octavian's 'guards' nervously looked between the two.
"Alright, that's enough!" Reyna announced, stepping between the two with a scowl set on her face. She turned to Naruto first, "As much as it pains me to admit it, Octavian has a point. You are a guest, do not show hostility to my people."
"Aw, she had to save the moron from getting his ass kicked." Piper said with a pout, and Jason chuckled at her words.
Reyna then turned to Octavian, "And you, Octavian, have no right in choosing who is and isn't allowed in our camp! Now return to your duties or I will have you arrested for attacking a foreign diplomat!"
"You don't have the right-!" Octavian began, only for Jason to step forward.
"Bad move, idiot." Leo snickered.
"You not only threatened our guests, Octavian, but my sister as well!" Jason snarled, "Who happens to also be the daughter of Zeus! What does that tell you?"
"To shut your little mouth," Hazel smiled viciously at the asshole being put in his place.
Thalia shoved Jason lightly with a smile on her face, him giving one right back, a bright one adoring his own face.
Octavian promptly shut up, looking as though he just swallowed something sour, sending another sneering glare to Naruto. The look was returned with one of restrained anger, part of it was influenced by Helios' opinion and of Naruto's own dislike for the teen. Octavian held his gaze for a moment longer before retreating.
Naruto's eyes narrowed and he grumbled, "How the fuck did that come from my Dad?"
"Not my fault!" Apollo announced to the eyes of the Roman demigods and Percy that were on him.
"Don't let him get to you," Reyna said to the blond, placing a hand on his arm, "He was trying to get you to react."
"Ah, small physical contact to gain attention and show affections. Subtle, but good in the long run," the love goddess said with a smirk.
"Yeah and he almost got his wish," the older demigod muttered angrily. He turned around and walked away, interlocking his hands behind his head as he did, "Well, we gonna get some food soon? I thought you guys would've added a restaurant while I was gone!"
Jason mused about that, if they only did. Meals at Camp Half-Blood were much more...well, the meals were homier than back at Camp Jupiter if the son of the sky was perfectly honest.
"You're a riot, Naruto," Jason replied as his eyes rolled. As Reyna and Piper followed after the son of Apollo, he nudged Thalia and asked, "You wanna go with them? We might not have a restaurant but we've got some pretty good food at the barracks."
"This place sounds more like a boot camp than a summer camp," Thalia murmured
"Well, yeah, pretty much." Frank said.
Thalia still frowned a bit that her little brother grew up like some military brat. He should have grown up with a bit more than just training this and regulations that, but what's done is done.
with her eyes narrowed as she watched Reyna gently touch Naruto's arm to gain his attention. Mad as she might be at her boyfriend, she wasn't about to let some crushing girl try to take him away.
"I hear you, sister!"
"Oh be quiet McLean." Thalia hissed with pink cheeks, but Piper just stuck out her tongue at the hunter.
Looking at her brother and forcing down her anger, Thalia gave him a small smile, "Sure."
Later that evening, Shikamaru found himself staring up at the roof of his cell. Kiba had tired himself out trying to force one of their armored guards to release him under death threats.
"Wow, these guys really are stupid." Hazel frowned, maybe it was better that Naruto left these people. It was where he truly belonged after all.
The guards merely spoke in another language before laughing as their relief came in. Upon being asked what language they were speaking, he was told nothing. Choji floated in and out of consciousness. Whatever Naruto did, he made it possible for Choji to slowly recover, if what one of their guards said in English was anything to go by.
It made the heir to the Nara clan think about what Naruto had said to him.
"You can't take me home: I Am Home."
"You tell them kiddo!"
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