Hello readers, welcome to my new chapter. First of all, I want to apologize again for the blunder I make. I promise it is not going to happen again anytime soon. The reason I did not change it quickly after I got all those reviews is because I was at school. And I updated before I went to the bus, so I didn't pay attention. Never doing that again.
Second, I want to tell everyone who thinks I'm going to literally kill Apollo THAT I'M NOT! Seriously, that just a metaphor! An exaggeration! You guys take things too seriously! No offense or anything, but seriously?
And third, a friend/ally of mine, PyschoPath, got two crossover challenges some of you might be interested in. One is a Naruto and Final Fantasy XIII crossover while the other is a three way crossover. Percy Jackson, Naruto, and Shakugan No Shana. Go on PyschoPath profile if you're interested. Now, after that is all said and done, enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Percy Jackson.
Chapter 13: Angry Fathers and a Flashback
(Poseidon Temple)
Hephaestus strode through Poseidon temple, the sea people passing him swimming away in fright when they felt the godly anger flowing through him. Hephaestus had a deep scowl in his face and his arms, legs, and beard was on fire. He saw the whole thing. How Percy was manipulated by Apollo to when Percy nearly killed Naruto. Naruto shouldn't have hold back. Water is strong against fire and Percy is stronger than most think.
Anyway, he's in the sea god's temple to tell Poseidon the news. Poseidon would want to know of this and it would be foolish to hide it from him. With that thought, he went into Poseidon's throne room where he was talking to Amphitrite. The two looked at Hephaestus when they heard the door open.
Poseidon raised an eyebrow when he saw the anger is Hephaestus's eyes. "What got you angry this time nephew? Did Aphrodite bed Naruto or any of your other children? Did Ares break one of your weapons? Did Her-"
"It concerns your son Percy," Hephaestus said. Poseidon stiffened and straightened up, knowing it was bad news. Amphitrite huffed and disappeared in the water, knowing that Poseidon's focus is all on that now.
"What happened?" Poseidon asked quietly. Then Hephaestus told him everything, from Apollo manipulation to Percy and Naruto fight. Once he was finished, Poseidon was shaking with anger and the sea was raging at the surface.
"When are we going to get our hands on him?" Poseidon asked quietly, his voice turning to ice. Hephaestus knew how he felt. He wanted to get his hands on Apollo to for trying to kill Naruto too. But they can't kill him. Otherwise, it'll stir up a whole lot of trouble.
"Poseidon, we will make Apollo pay, but you got to swear on the Styx you won't kill him when we do," Hephaestus said. Poseidon was about to open his mouth to protest, but Hephaestus continue, "If we kill him, that'll cause conflict with Zeus and some of the other gods. Plus, we need someone to hold the sun and Apollo has that job."
Poseidon sighed. As much he hates to admit it, Hephaestus right. Reluctantly, he swore on the Styx and hearing the thunder, the Smith God and the Sea God teleported to Olympus, giving in to the goddess of vengeance.
(Olympus)
Apollo was at his temple, using every single swear word known to man and god. His planned had failed. He didn't think that Thalia would break through the doors. Great, he needed to think of another for getting rid of Naruto. It seemed that the goddess of luck was on his side.
Suddenly, he heard his door burst open. He briefly wondered if he angered his step-mother before feeling two familiar presence. One of fire and one of water. He paled. If it's who he thought they were, he's in big trouble. To confirm his fear, he looked at the entrance of the door to see the two people he'd rather not see.
Hephaestus and Poseidon.
"Hello Apollo. How are things?" Poseidon spoke casually, but Apollo can sense the anger and killing intent from him. He gulped. They didn't find out did they?
"Oh, um, things are going good," Apollo said, putting on a nervous smile and chuckling nervously. Then looked at the door, that was broken near his wall. "Um, my telling why you broke my door?"
Hephaestus smile darkly, "Oh nothing, just found out that you manipulated my cousin into killing my son." If Apollo's tan didn't completely drain, it did now. Crap.
He saw them move forward, making him move back. He put his hands up like it would protect him, "N-n-now guys listen. It's nothing personal, I just...wanted to see some entertain, yeah that's it." Let it be known, that Apollo cannot lie even if it kills him.
"Yes, we totally believe you," Poseidon said sarcastically. He pull his trident from his back while Hephaestus set his hands a flame and pull out two flaming kunai, "Which is why we're going beat you into oblivion."
While they were talking, the three were moving. Poseidon and Hephaestus moving towards him while Apollo kept moving back. Eventually, the son god ended up on a wall.
"Can't we talk about this like civilize gods?" Apollo whimpered, praying to anybody for protection. Unfortunately, no prayers can come through here.
The two grin darkly and lift their weapons up. This time, Hephaestus spoke, "No, we are going to enjoy this."
Every minor god could hear the screams of Apollo.
(Sunwest Train)
Percy opened his eyes sleepily. When feelling started register in his body, he groaned. He felt like a bull run over him or something. His vision a little blurry, but he can see a couple of people in the room. What happen? Why is his body aching so badly?
When he finally gained his eyesight, he saw Annabeth, Thalia, Grover, Zoe, Phoebe, Bianca, and Naruto. The five girls were glaring at him while Grover gave him a disappointed look. Naruto just look at him with an unreadable expression. Percy frowned. Why are they mad at him? Is this about sneaking in this quest?
"You're finally awake," Naruto said casually, then cross his arm. "Feeling okay?"
Percy grimaced when he was reminded of the pain he is in. "I feel that a pickup truck run over me." He saw Annabeth walk up to him from where she was sitting.
SMACK
Percy head is at the side with a slap mark on his face. His face stung and held a shock face at what Annabeth had did. Annabeth glare at him with cold fury in her eyes.
"You big, half-witted, seaweed headed, idiot!" Annabeth yelled, "You did some stupid things, but what happen today top all of them together!" Percy is really confused. What did he do that was so bad?
"Annabeth, is this about me sneaking out of camp and into this quest?" Percy asked. Annabeth was about to yell again, but Naruto put a comforting hand on her to calm her down. Annabeth took a few breaths before sitting back to where she was sitting.
Naruto bend on his knee and look at Percy eye to eye. "You don't remember anything that happened in this train?" Naruto asked. Percy furrowed his eyes in confusion before remembering a few things.
"I remember all of us getting in the train, you about to get scolded by the girls before me and Grover left," Naruto paled and shivered at the reminder. That was the scariest thing that happened to him and he faced the Akatsuki at age thirteen. "Me and Grover talking, Apollo appearing in front of me after I rest a bit, and…" Percy then remember what Apollo before he was mind control and glare at Naruto, "Then told that you were about to kill me and Grover and capture the girls."
Naruto sighed. Then look at Percy seriously. "Percy, whatever Apollo has told is a lie. I'm not a traitor and never will be." Before the Son of Poseidon could protest, Naruto continued, "And to prove to you I'm loyal to Camp Half blood, I swear on the styx I didn't even think about joining Kronos."
Everyone heard the thunder above and Percy eyes widened in surprise. Naruto's telling the truth. He isn't a traitor or a spy. Suddenly, he felt of wave of guilt. He accused him of being a traitor and tried to kill him when it was just Apollo lying to him. He also flinched when he saw Annabeth and Thalia still glaring at him.
"And Jackson, let me tell you something. I heard some stories about your quest," Naruto said in a dark voice, "From what it seems to me, you have no regards to the rules and rely on luck to back you up. You've been babied by your mother and Chiron, compared to other campers." Percy head shot up.
"I've been babied?!" Percy said in disbelief, "I had to go to a quest after one week of training and for years I had to put up with Gabe." Naruto just glare at him.
"Yeah, I know about Gabe. Annabeth told me what she knew about your relationship with the man and I contacted Sally while you rested." Percy perked up at that. He contacted mom? "I wanted to know everything about you before I could think about keeping you in this quest. She told me how Gabe make you pay money and threaten to beat you, but compare to others, you had a good life," Percy was about to yell at him, but Naruto was in a roll.
"You were verbally abused, yes, but half of the demigods and hunters I rescued were physically and/or sexually abused. Some of things I saw or heard could make anyone want to puke their lunch out. Demigods at the age of seven have to live on the street, facing the most dangerous monsters by themselves. You, at least, have a mother that cared for you, love you, and is alive. That something I couldn't say for most of us. My mom died protecting me when I was born." Naruto was still using his dark voice tone, despite the anger in his eyes.
"Sally babied you and kept secret about the fact you were a demigod while the rest of us found out the easy way or hard way. Chiron refused to indulge you in the prophecy and is keeping you away from that until you're at the age he feels you need to know. You rely on luck to save you while most of us has no such luck. You run with the luck of an idiot, making others look like amateur. You don't even try to better yourself." Percy anger was gone now and is now shrinking in the words.
Naruto was starting to finish up, "From what I see, you've been coddled. By your mother, by Chiron, by Poseidon. You had the luxury of semi-normal life while everyone else doesn't. That what I see." Percy head was down and feeling different kinds of emotions. Sadness, realization, and guilt are the top.
"So, are you going to take me back to camp?" Percy asked quietly. Naruto closed his eyes to think about it, then turn to the others.
"What do you guys think?" he asked them. He needed the other opinions as well before he can make a decision. The others decision were important and right now, he's too angry after that speech to make a rational choice.
"I would want you to take Percy back to camp so he'll stop endangering himself in the quest. People who got more than minimum requirement of people always lose one or more people." Annabeth said in her usually logical tone but then sighed, "But seaweed brain got tracked the skeletons warrior and it would endanger him and the camp if we bring him back. I vote to keep him here." Thalia, Bianca, and Grover agreed with Annabeth while Phoebe and Zoe wanted to leave him stranded. Even though they're close to Naruto, they still hate boys. And Percy is a real idiotic boy to them.
Annabeth and Grover, were not that angry at him anymore. They are used to Percy being Percy and Apollo did manipulated and control him. Annabeth is a little miffed that Percy would even think that Naruto is a traitor, but not enough to act hostile or ignore him.
"So four against two huh?" Naruto said to the others, then turn to Percy. "Since the majority want you stay here, you'll stay with us. But you will not go against my orders. Anything I say, you do it without hesitation. I don't care of you are Poseidon's son, I won't allow anyone to disobey orders under my command." Percy was about to protest, but one glare from Naruto shut him up. He scowled, but nodded.
"Also, when we get back I'll talk to Chiron about punishment. You may have escaped punishment last time, but you are not now. Also, we are training you till you do better in hand to hand combat and better your swordsmanship, got it?" Percy nodded, using all of his will not to argue with the person who can tear you in half. He knew that he got lucky when he won the fight with Naruto and if Naruto wasn't holding back by a lot, he would've lost.
"Okay, now that we got all that away," Naruto said, calming down. "We can untie you from the rope and relax until the train stop." Naruto untied him with the help of Thalia. They all went to sleep before they felt the train stop.
All of them got out, Zoe and Phoebe the fastest. Then Naruto saw his car, making everyone but him confused. Wasn't it destroyed by that perverted sage?
Naruto saw the looks and decide to explain, "The car can self-repair itself. It can rebuild itself from anything that happens, unless it completely obliterated." Everyone nodded in understanding and Thalia was thinking of sneaking the car for joy rides. "But it takes from hours to days for it to be repair. Lucky thing was that the wheels and roofs were the only things that were damaged."
Naruto and Thalia got in the front while the others went to the back. Percy's eyes widened when he saw the inside of the car and Annabeth explained the car structure to Percy. It confused him a little, but he was able to understand most of it.
After a few minutes of driving and quietness, Percy couldn't take any of the silence. He turned to Annabeth, "So how did you, Thalia, Naruto, and Grover meet?" Annabeth turned to him, surprised at the sudden question before she smiled, remembering first meeting Naruto.
"Where to start?" Annabeth thought out loud to herself before she found a good starting place. "I told you he first found me right? Well, it was at Washington, a few weeks after I left my dad…"
(Flashback)
Annabeth was running as fast as possible from the big scary spider. She saw small spiders before and that scared her to death, but this one was half the size of a one story house. So when she saw it she screamed and ran like a demon was after her.
The monster heard her though and went after her, hungry for Athena's child. Annabeth had to go through a lot alleys and small holes in order to lose it.
When Annabeth was sure she lost the giant spider, she leaned down on the wall. Right now, she's at an alley in the middle of a game store and a Dollar Tree store. These five weeks been brutal for her. Giant dogs, bullies, and other monsters she ran into during her 'adventure'. Luckily her mother, Athena, guided her to safety.
She got up and was about to move again when she felt something on her ankle. When she tried to move, she felt that her leg was stuck. She looked down and her eyes widened. Spider webs.
She heard hissing from behind and she turned to see not one, not two, but three giant spiders. Her eyes widen in fear and she tried to struggling out of the web on her ankle while the spiders slowly reached their prey. She only succeeded in falling on her back.
The spider is moving closer to her and Annabeth froze in fear. She couldn't move her arms or her legs, she couldn't even close her eyes so she won't have to look at the things eating her. Is this it? Is she gonna die after surviving five weeks? The fear started to go away and is turning to despair. Tears started forming in her eyes as well, knowing that she will die.
Then suddenly, a wall of fire came between her and the spiders. The spiders shrieked in surprise and moved away from the flames. Annabeth heard walking from behind her and turn to see a man behind her.
The man had blond spiky hair with brown tips and looks to be ring color eyes. The outer ring brown, the middle one gray like her eyes, and the inner one blue. He's got light tan skin and, strangely, whisker marks on his cheeks. He's wearing a black leather jacket, an orange shirt underneath, and black jeans. And the most noticeable part about him is that he got a fiery spear with him.
Without a word, he ran toward the flames and spiders. She was about to tell him to stop when she saw him spread the fire away, making her eyes widen. Then she saw him fight.
His fighting style is nothing she's has ever seen. His fighting style is precise and tactical, but deadly as well. The blond hair man first waited for one of them to attack and when the first one lifted his body to strike, he stabbed it in the stomach. The spider screech in pain and the second jump on the wall and went to attack him at the side. That proved to be futile because the spider was being stabbed turn into ashes quickly and the man quickly turn his spear around to stab the other spider.
Annabeth saw the other spider spit out a glob of poison, but the man threw the nearly dead spider before it could turn into dust and blocked the poison attack. When the dead spider disappeared, it gave him an opening and the man threw the spear at the last one. It lodged into the skull and the spider went limp before it turn into golden dust.
Annabeth was in awe of the man. How did learn to fight like that? Can she learn from him? She saw him walk to her and the knelt down at her level.
"You okay?" The man asked in a brotherly tone. Annabeth stare at him for a few seconds before nodding. Naruto then grab a strangely shaped knife and Annabeth briefly wondered if he's going to kill her before he went to her ankle and cut off the webbing.
Before he knew it though, Annabeth got up and started asking many things rapidky. "Where did you learn to fight like that? How did you control the fire? Can you teach me fight?"
The man just laughed and put a hand over her mouth. "Calm down. I'll answer your questions as soon as we are settled in. For now though, we better go before any more monster come to find us." Annabeth nodded, but before they left she asked him what his name was.
"My name is Naruto Namikaze. Son of Hephaestus, Champion of Athena."
(End Flashback)
"After that, he answered all my questions." Annabeth continued, "He told me that he was from a different world, that it was his ninja and demigod skills, and that I could train to be a Kunoichi." Annabeth smile softly as she remembered the fun times she had with Naruto.
"He protected me, trained me, treated me like a little sister and he was like my big brother," Annabeth said but she wanted be more than a sister to him now. She then pulled out the knife she had, "He gave me this kunai as a gift and to protect myself from monsters. I'd cherished it before and after he disappeared." Her voice broke a bit at the last part.
All this time, Percy just listened. A part of him felt like it the same thing that was said about Luke, but he push that away. Naruto isn't a traitor. Especially since he swore on the Styx.
Then Percy wondered how he met Thalia and Luke but before he could ask, they felt an explosion at the side. Some shouted out in surprise while Naruto cursed and screeched the car to a stop.
Naruto got out of the car along with the others. He looked around and saw that they were at a deserted road in the middle of the forest. He also saw something on the roads and at the edges of the forest.
Paper bombs.
"Shit," Naruto cursed, "More leaf shinobi here! In the car, now!" Before anyone could get in, bunches of bugs surrounded the car and form a swirling mass of them. Four people came out of their hiding places from the trees and reveal themselves.
One of them was wearing a trench coat that covered his mouth and head, gray pants, and sunglasses. Another has a jonin vest and a green shirt, with tan skin and a beard, also got a cigarette in his mouth. The third one is girl with brown hair and her hair style like a panda, wearing a white longsleeve shirt, and brown pants. And the last is wearing an ANBU outfit, got long purple hair and a sword in hand.
Naruto groaned. Something tells him that this'll happen often.
And that's the end. Poseidon and Hephaestus beat the crap out of Apollo, Percy got scolded and had a realization moment, Annabeth told Percy more about her past, and more leaf shinobi shows up. They're not gonna give up until Naruto confront them. And if some of you upset that Naruto doesn't guilt trip the shinobi, it's going to happen at the next chapter. Also, again, I'm sorry for messing up that last update. I still can't get over it. Review, Favorite, and Follow and I will see you later.
