Don't call it a comeback. Seriously...don't. Back at it again with a new chapter. Solid length, but it has what's needed. There is a flashback here, if you already didn't know, and it's important. Well, not really, but I think it's cool.

Markus-Antonius: Gracias for the feedback. Jason is gruff cuz, that's how the Romans were, and this is Jason before his exposure to the Greek half, so he's still pretty Roman. And Reyna is more emotional, cuz, c'mon, bringing out emotions in people is Naruto's strong suit no matter the person. It's just what he does. And Octavian was given credit because I'm pretty sure, despite his...charm, he needed to be good with a weapon as per usual with the Romans. Continue to read though, and continue to give your feedback.

Guest: I didn't take away anything that made Naruto him. His jutsu doesn't do that, it's his personality, and I think I captured that. There are stories that have Naruto not having chakra or even being blind. It's not the outward appearance, it's what's inside. His character.

ultima-owner: Yes, yes it would.

AlphaScribe: Thanks for the kind words, and her you go, yo.

Acolyte of The Red Moon: I brought her back for the reason Juno said. The goddess of marriage and family brought back his mother, her son's wife, and technically her daughter in law. Ironic dontcha think? or really clever? And here's another chapter for you by the way.

Sniperbeattie: Here's the next chapter, and hold onto the seat of your pants cuz we are getting there and quickly. Gotta wait and find out.

XXX Chaos Breaker XXX: Gracias homie.

ENDDRAGON369: Sorry to say, I don't know much about that Anime besides the basics. I also wouldn't want to add another element into this that may throw it all off, ya know? I hope you keep reading despite that.

Naruto stormed into the principia with Reyna trailing him, and just as furious. His long red hair began to wave slowly behind him as a result of his angry state. He walked in and sat down aggressively in his chair, crossed his arms, and began to curse under his breath. He finally noticed someone else was in there with them, sitting in the front.

"What are you doing here?" Naruto asked him.

Percy stuttered for a second, having watched two people walk in with murder in their eyes, one had his hair waving around like bloody snake, and the other had two pretty big metal dogs that looked just about as angry as she did. "Uh," he finally got out. "Reyna. She was the one-"

"I wanted him in here so we can talk," Reyna interrupted angrily. She stabbed her dagger down onto a table as she passed it, rattling the bowl of half empty jelly beans and terrifying the life out of Percy, before sitting in her chair with a heavily stressed sigh.

"Fine. But we still need to talk afterwards," He said with an irritated scowl on his face.

"Look, if me being here is a problem, then I can just go," Percy offered, but was immediately shot down.

"It's not you," Reyna started.

"It's those damn senate meetings," Naruto interjected. "Ugh, I hate those things with a passion. You know that's the only place Octavian is better than us at, right?"

Reyna rolled her eyes, "You don't have to tell me that. I know my way around one, but once Octavian gets talking…"

Despite the display of emotion from Reyna that Percy had yet to experience in person, he thought she was the usual stoic leader who had no heart or something, Percy felt comfortable in the presence of the two Praetors. "You guys are warriors. Octavian is a talker. Put him on a battlefield and you can wipe the floor with him, but put him in front of the senate and suddenly he is the powerful one."

Naruto nodded his head, "Exactly."

Reyna narrowed her eyes at him, "You're smarter than you look."

Percy didn't know if he should feel offended or flattered. "Gee, thanks. I hear Octavian might get elected in his," he nodded to Naruto, "place while he is gone on this quest."

"Which brings us to the topic of doomsday," Reyna said while pulling off the silver ring she had on her finger, "and how you might help prevent it. But before all of that, there is some things we need to get straightened."

It was here that she stopped as Naruto face palmed. Percy and she looked at him, while he groaned in frustration.

"I forgot to tell you about my dream, and what I learned. Stupid senate meeting and stupid Octavian made me forget all about it," he grumbled loud enough for them to hear.

"Now is not the time to hear about one of your numerous and crazy dreams, Naruto," Reyna said.

Naruto shook his head, "No, this one was about Jason."

"There goes that name again. From the sound of it, he was very important to the two of you…"Percy trailed off after seeing the looks he was given.

Naruto ran a hand through his hair, "He was. More than you could imagine. He was my brother in all but blood, and he was her-"

"Boyfriend," Reyna finished, and throwing Naruto a look for forgetting to tell her about his dream. "We were dating before he disappeared and I don't want to talk about this right now."

"And why not?" Naruto questioned. "Here is the only chance we are going to get through this, Reyna."

"But there are more important things to discuss at the moment, and I'd rather what you are talking about be discussed between the two of us. In private," she insisted.

"I am leaving after lunch, Reyna, which is in a few hours. On a quest that I may or may not come back from. After the years of you avoiding this, I think it's pretty damn important," Naruto argued. Now, he brought up the possibility of him not coming back, even though he would do it all in his power to make it back, quests have been known to be unpredictable.

Percy, still very curious about the whole situation, asked the million dollar question. "What happened?"

"We were the best of friends. We were as close as family. Where one went, the other two went with. It was during the Second Olympian War where we formed an unbreakable bond under the flames of war. We became forces of nature on the battlefield. Ask anybody, hell, even ask Octavian about us, and, despite the mutual dislike, we were respected. It was the reason we are Praetors now. But, it was after the war that I found out that my two best friends, my brother and sister, were lying to me and going behind my back to be in a relationship…"He revealed. All while he was talking, he stared right at Reyna, wanting to see her reactions.

"Naruto…we planned on telling you…"Reyna tried to say, but her words got caught in her throat.

"Oh, I know that now, but you had already been dating for three months! Three months Reyna. Three months of lying to me. Do you know how much that hurt to find out?" He asked. She could still hear the raw feeling behind his She shook her head side to side sadly, eyes to the floor in shame. "I knew you would feel betrayed, but we thought it best that-"

"You thought it best that you keep it a secret because of my feelings for you." He finished for her. Before she could ask how he knew, he continued speaking. "It was after I saw you two kiss each other at our training grounds," he looked to Percy. "We had our own training grounds at the time because Jason was Praetor, so that came with it, and because we needed a space to experiment with mine and his powers. Back to what I was saying, it was after that, that Jason found me later that day, and explained it all to me," Naruto winced as he remembered what went down.

FLASHBACK

SLASH

I thought they were my friends!

THUMP THUD WHOOSH

I thought that we trusted each other with anything and everything!

SWISH SLASH

I can't believe them!

SLAM

By the time Naruto stepped back from the training dummy, there was nothing left but the pole it was attached to, and even then that was barely there. It was demolished. There was no other way to describe it. Bits and pieces of the training dummy littered the empty field. Parts of the dummy had been reduced to ash, others were embedded into the ground like broken flag poles.

This was one of three.

When he got here, he was riding a vengeful wave of anger and hurt. The three training dummys were the only thing in sight for him to hit. He wouldn't be surprised if he was forced to pay for their replacement, but at the moment he didn't care, he still doesn't care either. He didn't care about the wary looks the other campers were sending him or the slightly angry ones some were giving his back for taking over their place in training. But he could care less. They didn't open their mouths due to the trio of dick heads who couldn't take a hint and were now lying unconscious with probably broken bones and mild burns.

No, there was something else or rather, two someones on his mind right now. He wanted nothing to do with them. So, he bolted before he did something he'd regret.

Just thinking about it made him a mighty combination of hurt and furious at the same time.

"Naruto!"

He turned and snarled at the voice that sounded off his name. This was the last person he wanted to see.

Wisps of red energy began to waft off of his arms, his shoulders, and his back. He felt the power, and he struggled to contain it.

"I knew you'd be here, man. Okay, look Naruto, I know you're mad. But, I'm here to apolog-.!"

Whatever he was going to say was effectively cut off as a stray piece from a dummy flew at him.

Naruto growled and his lip pulled back showing Jason his sharpened canines, and smoke wafted out of his mouth.

"Draw your weapon, Grace," was all he said.

He saw Jason gulp, but not question it. He flipped his coin and out came his Gladius. He got in a ready stance, but Naruto could still see the sorry look he held in his eyes. He faltered a bit at that, but then his anger overwhelmed whatever sense of reason he had.

He crouched low, his legs apart and ready to burst him forward. He discarded his tonfa on the ground. No, he was going to beat him purely with his two hands. He was going to feel his fists hit his face. He knew he came here to apologize for his part in what went down, but Naruto didn't want to hear it until he showed him just how he felt…

With his fists…

With a roar he pushed off, splintering the ground where he once was, and in an instance he was in Jason's face. He smiled sinisterly at the shocked look that grew on his face. Before he could bring his sword up to bear, Naruto's fist rocketed forward with the force of a speeding train, and impacted with the side of Jason's face in a savage right hook. It was like a gunshot rang out. Jason's head was forced the other way by the brutal punch, and Naruto could see the blossoming bruise on his right cheek. He followed up with a jaw breaking uppercut from his left that connected with Jason's chin with a resounding smack. The strength behind the blow momentarily lifted Jason off of his feet and defenseless. He grabbed the back of Jason's head and brought his knee dead into his gut. Jason's eyes popped open from the blow to his abdomen and blood and spittle was forcefully expelled from his mouth.

Naruto stepped back from the stunned Jason, and watched as he fell to his knees gripping his stomach and dry heaving in pain. He scowled hard still and brought his leg up to kick Jason in the head, but he was knocked back by a sudden gust of powerful wind. He was forced back from Jason's downed body, and he put a hand up to cover his eyes from the bits of training dummy and rock that flew up at him.

The power of the wind grew and circulated around Jason, and Naruto smiled despite himself. Good. He'd be even madder if Jason just sat there and took the beating he was dishing out. The campers that were around the grounds were sent skidding away with wild eyes, but Naruto anchored himself to the ground to keep from sliding away like they were.

Naruto saw Jason wipe his mouth, and stagger his way up, head down with his bangs covering his face as a literal mini tornado raged around him, whipping around his hair and clothes. Naruto felt the hairs on his arms begin to rise, as he sensed the air begin to feel electric and smell like ozone.

He flared his own formidable powers, creating a red haze around him that protected him from the powerful winds. His eyes and his entire body glowed red as his god blood flowed through his veins and was drawn out.

Jason finally looked up, and Naruto saw the hard scowl on his face. Pure electricity arced in his eyes. So much that he couldn't discern any pupils or anything. His eyes had seemed to turn into lightning. Quick arcs of lightning bounced off his skin and down his body. He stabbed his sword into the ground, and pointed a glowing fist at Naruto.

"I came here to talk Naruto, but if I'm going to have to beat you until calm down enough to listen to me then so be it. I hold no excuses for what I did, but you WILL listen to what I have to say," he said with narrowed eyes.

Naruto grunted in anger as his purple camp shirt burned away from the heat his body was emitting. This was why he made those heat resistant shirts, but it just had to be today of all days that it was laundry day.

At least it was one less shirt to wash.

His red hair flared behind him as waves of heat clashed with cutting blades of air. The teenage powerhouses were set to knock the block off of the other. They knew the other wouldn't stop until they were beaten black and blue.

In the briefest of moments before utter chaos ensued, two smiles grew on each of their faces.

With simultaneous yells, the two teens rushed each, fists pulled back ready to clobber what was ahead of them. They both planted their front foot into the ground, demolishing the earth, and swung, Jason an uppercut and Naruto an overhand right.

There was deafening clap of thunder and what sounded like the roaring of a volcano as the two blows met their targets in each other's faces.

When the campers who witnessed the two of the best their cam had to offer clash like they had were asked what they saw they described it as, 'The most brutal fistfight they had ever seen.'

They say from that point, not one of them moved from their spot. They just stood there and threw titanic blows at each. Haymaker after haymaker after haymaker after haymaker was thrown. Flashes of lightning, booms of thunder, smoldering heat, and gunshot like sounds were felt and heard from the ones able to stay conscious under the onslaught of their two combined auras of power. They said it was like Jupiter himself and Vulcan possessed the two teenagers and just duked it out in the most ruthless, bloody, mangling way possible!

And at the end, when they were both nothing but swollen tissue and hair, they swung one last time. There was a flash of white, an explosion, and then silence. When the dust cleared and the smoke was gone. There was only one standing…

FLASHBACK END

"So, after we pretty much destroyed the training grounds, sent each other to the hospital, and permanently scarred a few campers, I just…listened to what he had to say," He smiled small, but there was a touch of warmth to it as he remembered what happened. "How could you not forgive someone who, in an almost full body cast mid you, tried to get on his knees and beg for an apology?"

Unknowingly to Naruto, Reyna's heart clenched painfully in her chest at hearing this. She swallowed the lump that was forming in her throat, and tried to keep her composure. She cleared her throat to grab both of their attention, and she nearly faltered as Naruto's gaze fell on her. His eyes had always interested her. What an odd, pretty color…

…what?

She mentally shook it off, and went to speak. "Onto the immediate situation," she said, ignoring Naruto's glare, "With Naruto gone, the camp will be down one Praetor as you know, Percy Jackson. What you and most of the senate don't know is that the situation is a lot worse than they've been led to believe."

"Just how worse?" Percy asked.

Reyna dug her fingers into the armrests of her chair as she recalled what she learned. "Octavian has seen a massive army marching south, bigger than we suspected and bigger than we can possibly defeat without suffering more casualities than I would like to afford. They're led by a giant, and before you ask, it is not Alcyoneus as it would make no sense for him to leave Alasksa, where he is at his strongest and supposedly invulnerable. No, it must be one of his brothers."

Percy sighed heavily, voicing his frustration. "That's just great. So, we got two giants to worry about."

Naruto nodded and spoke up, "Yeah, it's about as shitty as we're gonna get. Lupa and her wolves are trying their damndest to slow them down, but the army is just too big, even for her. Eventually they will get here, and soon too."

"Yes, but it is not all hopeless," Reyna said. "If you succeed and bring back our eagle, release Death so we can actually kill our enemies, then there is a chance."

Percy nodded at the finality in her tone, and gave them a look that asked if he could go. He got two nods, and left in silence, mulling over what he was just told and the quest coming up. He had a gut feeling that this wasn't the first one of these that he had been on, and he wasn't about to let it be his last.

As Percy left, and the door closed, neither of them spoke for a moment. Reyna was fingering the silver ring she wore on her finger, and Naruto was waiting for her to say something.

Eventually Reyna looked to Naruto and spoke.

"Naruto," he looked at her curiously, "I need you to do me a favor." She told him

Naruto nodded his head in agreement, "You want me to check up on your sister for you?"

She looked at him, bewildered by his quick deduction of what she wanted.

He laughed at her look. "You've been messing with that ring you got from your sister, so I guessed it had something to do with her. Plus, I'm pretty sure that we will be going by Seattle, so I just made an educated guess."

He smiled widely at her, and Reyna smiled appreciatively back. She took the ring off and slid it over to Naruto who caught it and gave her a questioning look.

"Show that ring to her so she knows that you are under my protection, and instead of killing you, she may help you. I can't speak for her, though. In fact, I haven't spoken to her in months. She's gone quiet, and regardless of just who she commands now, I still worry about her," She explained to him.

Naruto looked at the ring for a second before slipping it onto his own finger. He'd probably lose it if he put it anywhere else. The dup descended into silence for another time due to the break. They both knew that after lunch, he was leaving. Unbeknownst to the other, they both didn't know how to broach the topic on their minds.

Just as Naruto was fed up with the silence between them, and ready to burst, to his surprise Reyna did something he accepted that she wouldn't do.

Apologize.

"Naruto…I'm sorry for what I had a part in. I know now that it was stupid, and I made a mistake. The reason I didn't say anything was because…was because I was too ashamed. I wouldn't allow myself to take that step. I thought I hadn't done anything wrong. That I made the choice I thought was best for all of us. Jason probably tried to take the blame for it all, didn't he? The idiot. It was my choice, and my pride wouldn't allow me to admit that my choice was the wrong one," she took a deep, shaky breath before continuing. "I was too disgusted with my actions once it hit me just how bad I messed up. By then I was swamped with my duties, and then Jason disappeared and the workload only increased. I can't thank you enough for stepping up, and I know how you felt more than anybody about it. I know that those are just excuses, and it doesn't make up for what I did, but I just wanted to let you know I was sorry before you…left," She said to him. Naruto saw the redness in her eyes, and could just feel her honesty and how genuine she was being. Naruto knew that she was one to never outright put her emotions and her feeling on the table like this, so he was stunned by this apology.

But she wasn't done. Now, the tears started to fall but she continued to stare him right in the eyes. "I know that you probably will never forgive me for what I did, and I'm okay with that. I've accepted it. I just, I just know I couldn't live with myself knowing that I didn't tell you that I was wrong. I hurt you, and I felt, feel, like absolute trash for doing it and not telling you this sooner. So, I'm sorry Naruto."

When she was finished, she wiped away the tears that leaked from her eyes and looked at him sadly, expecting a response. She didn't get one. He was shocked speechless by her apology, and couldn't think of anything to say in response. His brain was still trying to catch up with all what was said.

Reyna, seeing that Naruto didn't move to answer, felt her heart drop into her stomach. She couldn't say that she honestly expected him to just up and forgive her that easily. She had betrayed his trust and was just now apologizing. Anyone in their right mind wouldn't forgive her. She guessed she was just going to give him space for right now. Well, he was going to get all the space he needed on this quest.

She got up from her chair, and wiped her eyes one last time. She didn't look back at Naruto, there was too much raging inside of her right now, and she needed to look the part of Praetor and not some crying little girl. She scoffed internally. Her mother and sister were probably laughing somewhere at her predicament. Crying was a sign of weakness, and she learned early on to never show any weakness. Her mother, the goddess of war itself probably didn't cry. Her sister for sure, didn't cry for she was the one to tell her that particular piece of advice.

She collected herself, and began to leave. She got about halfway before she heard Naruto rise from his chair. Then his hurried footsteps to catch up to her. He finally stopped right behind her.

"Reyna, turn around, please?" He asked her softly.

She clenched her eyes shut and bit her lip. She took a deep breath and turned around…

…right into a warm hug.

"Thank you for the apology, but I already forgave you a long time ago," He whispered into her ear as he pulled her closer.

A few tears slipped from her eyes, as she reciprocated the hug by tightening her arms around his waist. She felt the invisible barrier that was between them fall in this serene moment. All of her worries about the future disappeared, and she allowed herself to just enjoy it.

And enjoy it she did.

Time skip: Four Hours Later

"There's got to be a mistake," Hazel said. "This is a pile of junk."

Naruto sighed, but didn't say anything. Today was just going to suck, wasn't it? Good thing he atleast had some food in his stomach before. It looked like this boat could barely stay afloat let alone sail to where they needed to go. He knew what they were getting into, but there was no other option. While the Romans had a nearly unstoppable land army, it was the sea where they fell a little short. Using the word 'navy' was pushing it.

While they were granted their wish of a boat…it wasn't much. It was more like a leaky dingy.

Naruto silently snickered to himself at that, but apparently not silent enough, as an irate Hazel spun on him angrily.

"You think this is funny, don't you? You red haired hooligan! Don't make shove my foot so far up your-mmmpfhpf!" A hand rose to cover her mouth, and Naruto sent a grateful look to a struggling Frank. He held Hazel in the air as she kicked her feet and struggled against Frank's strength.

Naruto frowned a bit and ran a hand through his hair. He didn't look like a hooligan, did he?

As Naruto was contemplating his look and Frank was struggling with a frenzied Hazel who had devolved into biting his hand in an attempt to escape hos clutches, Percy calmly walked to the boat at took a glance at it.

He closed his eyes and put out a hand towards the water. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared ahead in amazement. Well, slight amazement for Naruto. He'd seen Jason freaking fly for crying out loud. Granted it ended up with him stuck in a tree, but it was still in his top ten coolest things he had ever seen.

Anyways, the water churned and rose to surround the dingy looking boat. Tendrils of water wrapped around the ship, and gripped the boat.

To everyone's surprise, the boat was pulled under water.

"WHAT!"

Just as Hazel was ready to tear into Percy, Frank wasn't about to stop her either, out of the water rose the boat, but it didn't look the same.

Where once dust and rust and dirt was, was now pristine and only slightly damp. The torn sails were somehow sewn together with no evidence of their sewing. Chipped wood, and dull paint was refurbished and brought back to life with the symbol of camp shining proudly on the side of it.

Percy dropped his hand, and scratched the back of his head.

"Well, I don't think it looks so bad now. Right, guys?"

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Jason scratched the back of head, as he stood on the Argo II as it travelled on to the other camp. He'd be lying if he said that he was wary of it all. Who knows what he could be forgetting. They would probably expect something from hi, or for him to know certain things that he just didn't. Maybe he was someone important to them? He was a son of Jupiter, so it was a possibility.

He sighed as he leaned over the side of the Argo, and let the gentle winds wash over him, easing his worries. He closed his eyes and embraced the winds.

"Hey," He heard someone say to his left.

He smiled a cracked open his eyes. He turned to her, and opened his arms up for her. She stepped into his embrace, him behind her with his chin on her shoulder, as they intertwined their hands on her stomach. He took a deep breath in of her, and let it out happily.

"So what's on your mind, Jason?" She asked him with that sweet melodious voice of hers.

He smirked, "What makes you think that I had something on my mind?"

She rolled her colorful eyes at him and tilter her head back to look at him, "I know because you looked like you smelled something bad."

Jason alarmingly looked her in the face, "That's not how I actually look when I'm thinking, is it?"

She smiled and giggled at his question, but she didn't answer. She just patted his cheek and turned back around.

Jason relaxed once more, he was sure that wasn't how he looked, and melded with his girlfriend. At the moment he forgot all about his worries. He let himself become lost in the warmth of their embrace. He kissed her chocolate cheek, and he can see her raised eyebrow in a questioning manner.

"That was a thank you for being here to take my mind off of what's coming up. If it wasn't for you and the others, I'm pretty sure I would've pulled my hair out already," He told her.

She blushed cutely, but didn't say a thing. She just turned around in his arms, and placed a kiss on his lips. He quickly kissed her back, and relished in the pure happiness she just seemed to bring him.

Unbeknownst to him, in the very camp that he was headed to, a girl felt the sudden urge to impale something onto her spear.

Huh…weird.