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But it's about time I start the Chapter...so….yeah

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MrNeedsToRemoveAllFavs: Okay, I get what you're saying, I must not have been overly clear on why Aphrodite looked like Hinata. She didn't go there thinking 'Oh, I'm going to look like his dead lover!', no, she just used her passive ability to look like his ideal woman x10. (Based on Percy Jackson explanation.) So, she showed up looking like Hinata, with a little bit of Hestia mixed in. The darker skin tone and more angular features are all Hestia, while the hair and eyes are Hinata's. And Yeah, Aphrodite is a bitch.

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And Everyone who has speculated this so far: READ AND FIND OUT YA IMPATIENT LITTLE CHILDREN! Geez, expecting me to just tell you if Hestia is a reincarnation of Hinata or not...that would potentially ruin a surprise for down the road, and frankly, I don't like the idea of reincarnating someone like that...but that doesn't mean she isn't...or is she? YOU WILL NEVER KNOW UNTIL I TELL YOU! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :P

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Anyway...

TO THE STORY! :D

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Chapter 10: Blast From The Past

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"Woah…" was the only word Percy could say as he dropped the lantern in his hand from shock.

Before him stood a massive gate, its doors open and waiting. And on top of it were letters he couldn't recognize at all.

He was lost at what he was looking at, until a voice called out from behind him.

"Welcome, to the ruins of Konohagakure no Sato...The Village Hidden in the Leaves…"

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"WOAH! HOLY SON OF A…!" Percy shouted as he swung around to where the voice came from, to see the strange man who healed him flinch away from his shouting.

"No yelling no yelling! Echo makes a bad!" the man said as he held his ears in pain. As he finished warning Percy about the echo, the cave rumbled and shook for a moment before stopping.

"What just happened…" Percy mumbled as he steadied his staggered feet. The man in front of him took his hands from his ears and started to dart his head around as if he was watching for something.

"No yell. Sanctuary weak…" the man muttered as he nursed his aching ears. "Keep quiet, no yell. Follow me please…" he continued to say after his ears stopped ringing, waving his hand out for Percy to follow.

The Son of Poseidon looked at the man for a minute, a questioning look in his eyes. Who was this guy? After a moment, the man stopped walking and looked back at Percy's unmoving form. "Well? Come on, I give a tour." he said to him while continuing to wave for him to follow.

Percy sighed as he shook his head. As he began to follow the man he could only think of one thing. "This guy's freakin nuts…"

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"So...what exactly is this place?" Percy asked after nearly an hour of aimless wandering through the ruined city. He had to admit, the place was both beautiful and creepy at the same time. Between the soft blue lights, and some of the high up viewpoints, he could see that cave wasn't just enormous, but the city itself was beautiful. He knew one thing for sure, if Annabeth ever came here she would have a field day just looking at the architecture of some of the buildings. But with all that said, the place was still horrifyingly quiet. Between the darkness and the absolute quiet, the place was no better than a ghost town, reminding the boy of his time in the underworld. "Hopefully there aren't any three headed dogs down here…"

The man stopped abruptly, nearly causing Percy to run into his back as he contemplated his question. Cocking his head to the side the man thought as he hummed aloud.

"Konoha is...Konoha. It is home. Great city...ancient city. Strongest Ninja Village." he tried to explain as best he could, but all he did was confuse the poor boy even more.

Percy held up his hands and shook his head. "Woah woah woah...did you say ninja village? Like, Japanese guys that wear pajamas and run around at night?" He asked in utter confusion. "And what do you mean by, 'great city, ancient city?'"

His guide through this ghost town simply ran his single hand through his hair and grumbled to himself about idiots and...Dobe's? Whatever that meant. "Old city, before current Era. Made before land was split up….uh….Pangea? It around on Pangea."

Percy narrowed his eyes at the man. "...what's Pangea?"

The dark haired man groaned in annoyance as he started to walk away.

"Dumb...dumb Dobe's...everyone of 'em…."

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"You know...part of a tour is talking right? You have anything cool to say about any of these buildings?" Percy asked after another silent hour of walking. Honestly, if this guy was trying to show him around, he could at least tell him what he was looking at.

His guide cut his eyes, or at least Percy guested eyes, he had caught glimpses of some purple glow coming from where his hair covered his left eye, so he guessed he had two eyes.

With a sigh the man who was leading Percy around turned and pointed ahead of him. The building he was pointing at was a three story building that was fenced in with what looked like a petrified tree with a swing barely hanging by rotting rope. "Academy...learn to kill and defend country when child…" the dark haired man said in his broken style of speech.

Percy turned to him with raised eyebrows. "You mean like child soldiers? That just ain't right man…" he said in response with a slight shake of his head. Of course, when he thought about it, all of the half-bloods were child soldiers, trained from a young age to fight monsters and go on quests for the gods. But that was for a different reason than serving your country. They were learning to fight so that they could survive in the world, not just be random bodies on the battlefield.

The man just shrugged and walked on. "Different time...needed souldiers, everyone died young." he reasoned as he continued down the main street of the ruined city.

After a while Percy was lead to a large tower like structure, on it was a symbol that Percy could understand, much like most of the writing that strewn around the city. "What's that?" he asked as he pointed towards the tower, earning a glance from his guide.

"Hokage Tower." he said in a quiet tone, almost trying to avoid the tower as much as possible. This however, the son of Poseidon did not pick up on.

"Hokage? What's that?" he asked in a genuinely curious tone. The word just sounded...strange to him, like there was some sort of deep meaning to it.

He watched the man in front of him as his shoulders tensed, but after a moment, he loosened his shoulders...only to blur into motion. The dark haired man quickly spun on the spot towards the tower and held a hand up to his mount.

"Fire Release: Phoenix Flame Jutsu!" he exclaimed before several jets of flame erupted from the man's mouth, up towards the tower. Percy hit the ground with a startled shout, avoiding the flames on instinct. As the fireballs flew over him, he followed their paths and his jaw dropped in shock.

The jets of bright flame flew over the tower and into the air, up towards the wall of the cave they were in, and along the wall was something he was sure Annabeth would spaz over for a long time if she ever got to see it.

There were ten faces along the wall, large carvings of stone that showed the likeness of people of some grand importance.

"Hokage's…" the man said, breaking Percy from his shocked state. The son of Poseidon looked towards the man with a gobsmacked expression.

"Huh?" was his intelligent response, causing the man to sigh and hold the bridge of his nose. He pointed towards the monument and looked at Percy in the eyes.

"Hokage's, leaders of village and most powerful shinobi…" he said as his voice began to trail off. Percy noticed that his eye was turned away from him and back up to the mountain. Percy followed his gaze up towards the mountain and noticed a single face that he was staring at.

It was a carving of a female. It was the eighth one to be made and it sort of look like the man he was being guided by. Looking back to the man, Percy raised an eyebrow.

"Ancestor or something?" he asked the man, earning a half hearted glare from him.

"Daughter." he responded, earning a shocked look from Percy.

"But you don't look all that much older than me! At least not old enough to have a kid!" he stated in shock. The man in front of him just shook his head and started to walk away.

"Immortal…" he said over his shoulder, getting a understanding 'Oh' from Percy.

As he started to follow after the man, he took one last look at the monument before stopping. "Wait a minute…" he said, mostly to himself, but loud enough for his guide to hear him. The dark haired man turned back towards him with a confused expression.

"I know that guy…." he said as he pointed towards the face next to the guide's daughter. "Yeah. I met him last year! I think Annabeth said his name was...uuhhh...Ku...Kurama? Yeah! Kurama! He helped us save Artemis last year!"

While Percy was remembering the man's name, his guide looked him with wide eyes. And then he smirked. That smirk gave rise to a small chuckle, which then began to evolve into a full blown laugh, making Percy back away from the man in confusion. As the dark haired man began to calm down Percy raised a hand in questioning. "Uh…" he began before another round of laughter cut him off.

"Dobe! Dobe is….Bwahahahaha!" The man tried to say as he nearly fell to the floor. The son of Poseidon's eyebrow began to twitch and he was about to yell at the man in front of him, but was suddenly stopped when the man came to an abrupt halt, his once mirth filled expression becoming one of complete stone and seriousness.

"If Dobe showed up...then nearly end of Era. You…" he said as he pointed towards Percy. "You strong?"

It wasn't a statement, it was a question.

"You strong enough to win? Strong enough to protect?" he asked in his broken pattern of speech, his expression one of complete seriousness.

Percy stared at the man for a moment, before he felt something snap in him. "Okay, first off, I have no IDEA of what is going on here, but what I need to know is how to get out of here. Annabeth needs my help, the camp needs my help. I need to return to Camp Halfblood as soon as possible. I need you to show me how to get out of here!" he yelled at the crazed man, earning a raised eyebrow from him.

"And if I don't let you leave?" the man asked, his broken way of speech disappearing as a feeling of dread and malice filled the cave.

Percy began to shake slightly from the pressure the man wa exuding, but he was able to steel his nerves enough to uncap his hidden blade and level the point towards the man.

"L-look, I don't want to hurt you, but if y-you don't tell me how to get out of here, I-I will have to f-force you." he stuttered out, his sword arm shaking slightly.

The man before him looked with an appraising gaze for a moment before a confident smirk appeared on his face.

"Try it…" The man said before he unsheathed his single edged blade from the scabbard on his hip. "And see if you are truly strong!" He roared before he dashed forward, faster than anyone Percy had ever seen before.

It was by some wicked twist of fate that he was actually able to raise his blade quick enough to block the faster man's blade. The man raised an impressed eyebrow and retracted his blade and thrusted forward in a quick lung. Again, Percy was able to just barely keep up with the man's speed and was able to deflect the blade enough that it didn't go through his head. Just enough for it to only leave a small cut on his left cheek under his eye.

The brown haired boy stumbled back a few steps and cursed as his hand unconsciously went up to his cheek.

"That was a mistake…" a cold and menacing voice whispered into his ear from behind him, and before he could turn around, cold steel drove itself through his chest, blood pouring out of his body as he reeled in pain.

Percy took a shaky look down to see the sword sticking out of his chest, but when there was no sword, no wound, no pain, he gasped in shock.

Looking forward he saw the dark haired man standing before him, his blade still sheathed away.

"Welcome...to the Tsukuyomi. You will fight me for three days...and three nights...and then you will be stronger than you could possibly imagine…and then you will be allowed to leave.."

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(A/N): To be continued…

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