Disclaimer: Naruto is property of Masashi Kishimoto and Percy Jackson is property of Rick Riordan. I don't own this in anyway so please don't sue me.
Chapter 9: Reforging the Shinobi World
Before I left Olympus, I decided to make a few calls. It wasn't easy, but I finally found a quiet fountain in a corner garden and sent an Iris-message to my brother, Tyson, under the sea. I told him about our adventures, and Bessie he wanted to hear every detail about the cute baby cow serpent and I assured him that Annabeth was safe. Also how Annabeth and I were dating now which caused him to smile at me and I looked at him.
"So how are things with you?"
"Good," Tyson said happily, "I can visit next summer and see you again."
"Seriously? They'll let you take the time off?"
"Yee, I have made two thousand seven hundred and forty one magic swords, The boss says 'good work' he will let me the the whole summer off, I will visit camp!" we talked about war preparations and our dad's fight with the old sea gods, and all the cool things we could do together next summer but then Tyson's boss started yelling at him and he had to get back to work. I dug out my next drachma and made one more Iris-message,
"Sally Jackson, Upper East Side, Manhattan." The mist shimmered and there was my mom at our kitchen table, laughing and holding hands with her friend Mr. Blowfish. I felt very embarrassed, I was about to cut the connection but before I could, my mom saw me, her eyes widened and she let go Mr. Blowfish's hand real quickly.
"Oh, Paul! You know what? I left my writing journal in the living room, would mind getting it for me?"
"Sure, Sally," Mr. Blowfish said, "No problem." He left the room and instantly my mom leaned towards the Iris-message.
"Percy! Are you alright?"
"I'm better than alright," I said, "how's the writing seminar going." She pursed her lips.
"It's fine, but that's not important, tell me what happened!"
"Well my quest to save Artemis went well, I helped save Olympus again, Thalia joined the hunters to replace Zoe as lieutenant."
"What happened to Zoe?"
"She was killed by her father and was made into a new constellation." my mom closed her eyes and was offering a silent prayer.
"What else happened?"
"I saved Annabeth from Luke and his gang of butt buddies and there is one more piece of news." I waved Annabeth over to me who walked over and came into view of my Mother, then I kissed Annabeth and she blushed slightly when my mother cooed at us.
"You two are together now!"
"Yep," Annabeth said as I put an arm around her shoulder.
"Well we better let you get back to your homework." I said
"Percy, I….Paul and I-"
"Are you happy?" I asked, that question to take her by surprise, she thought about it for a moment.
"Yes, I really am, Percy, being around him makes me happy."
"Then it's cool, besides if I told you not to be with him I'd come off as a hypocrite." My mother laughed and so did Annabeth, "Besides even Ares would be better than Gabe." My mother smiled at me.
"You promise not to call him Mr. Blowfish?" she asked
"At least not to his face anyway."
"Sally," Mr. Blofis called from our living room, "You need the green binder or the red one?"
"I'd better go," She told me, "See you for christmas?"
"Can Annabeth join us?" My mom smiled and nodded and Annabeth kissed me again.
"Are you going to put blue candy in his stocking?" Annabeth teased.
"If he's not too old for that." My mom said playing along.
"I'm never too old for candy." I protested semi childishly.
"I see you both then." she waved her hand across the mist. Her image disappeared and I was left with Annabeth, which I wasn't complaining about. Soon we left and on Fifth Avenue was Argus, standing there with the van that we ditched in D.C. which I was wondering where he got that back but that was a question for a different day. We climbing in the van and on the drive home I remembered something I should have brought up when I was talking to Hades, Bianca.
"Oh shit." I said and Annabeth looked at me.
"What's wrong Percy?" she asked.
"I made a promise to Nico that I would protect his sister on the quest and we never found out where she went after the desert."
"Shit, how are we gonna explain that to Nico?" Grover asked
"Uh, good question." I looked over at Annabeth. "Any ideas Wise Girl?" I used my favorite nickname for her.
"Sorry," Annabeth said, "I don't have anything Seaweed Brain." Grover laughed a bit, as we continued on the drive towards Half-Blood Hill I held Annabeth's hand and smiled at her. About 20 minutes later we arrived at Half-Blood Hill and there was the Golden Fleece on the tree, I half expected Thalia to be standing there but she was long gone with the hunters. Chiron greeted us at the Big House with hot chocolate and toasted cheese sandwiches. Grover went off with his satyr friends to spread the word about our strange encounter with the magic of Pan. Within an hour, the satyrs were all running around agitated, asking where the nearest espresso bar was. Annabeth and I sat with Chiron and some of the other senior campers-Beckendorf, Silena Beauregard, and the Stoll brothers. Even Clarisse from the Ares cabin was there, back from her secretive scouting mission. I knew she must've had a difficult quest, because she didn't even try to pulverize me. She had a new scar on her chin, and her dirty blond hair had been cut short and ragged, like someone had attacked it with a pair of safety scissors.
"I've got news." Clarisse said uneasily. "Bad News."
"I'll fill you in later," Chiron said with forced cheerfulness. "The news is you have prevailed and you saved Annabeth." Annabeth kissed me on the cheek and I grabbed her hand and everyone looked at us.
"About fucking time." Silena said to which everyone started laughing, Annabeth and I blushed but for the first time since coming here Clarisse was smiling at me.
"What's with the smile?" I asked.
"You just won me a bet that I've been holding with my cabin ever since you got back from the Sea of Monsters." Clarisse said.
"You bet on me and Annabeth getting together."
"Yes." I stood up reaching for Anaklusmos.
"Percy," Annabeth said as she gripped my hand and pulled me down. "You can't exactly chastise her for betting when you have a bank account filled with casino money."
"Good point." I said.
"Anyway." Chiron said trying to keep a straight face, "do you have anything to say from the winter solstice?"
"Yes." I stood up and looked around, "Luke, somehow, is still alive after being set on fire and kicked off a cliff falling about 40 feet."
"Well," Annabeth said looking at me, "When the final conflict comes it will be when Percy turns 16, at least we have two more years to make a battle plan." Chiron's expression was gloom, sitting by the fire in his wheelchair, he looked really old, which he doesn't usually look.
"Two years seem like a long time but it will pass in the blink of an eye," Chiron said looking at me. "I still hope you are not the child of prophecy, but regardless the Second Titan war is almost upon us and Kronos' first strike will be here."
"Honestly I think people hype the titans to a level that they shouldn't be," I said, all eyes turned on me. "Just a few hours ago I battled an Avatar of the Titan king and kicked his ass, so I say let him come."
"Percy's arrogance aside, we must prepare, Clarisse's news may give us a clue as to how they will attack, but-" There was a knock on the door, and Nico Di Angelo came huffing in to the parlor, his cheeks bright red from the cold. He was smiling but he looked around anxiously.
"Hey!" he said. "Where's….Where's my sister?" I suddenly found out how loud silence could be.
"Hey, Nico." I said getting up preparing to deliver the news about his sister when the door burst open and there in the door stood Bianca Di Angelo and she was pissed. "Hi Bianca." I raised a hand awkwardly.
"HI!?" She shouted, "You leave me in the desert and the first thing you say to me is HI?!"
"What am I supposed say? 'How did you survive?' 'What have you been up to?' we were on a time limit and we did look for you."
"If you had bothered to search the Junkyard you would have found me Unconscious underneath a refrigerator on the west edge of the Junkyard."
"Look I'm sorry." I said holding up my hands defensively, Bianca let out a sigh and looked at me.
"Don't worry about it, did you keep the statue?" I channeled chakra into a seal and the statue she found appeared.
"Right here."
"Nico," Bianca looked at her daughter. "I found you the only statue that you were missing for your collection. It's a statue of Hades." Nico's eyes brightened.
"You found a Hades Mythomagic statue!" He shouted happily and I handed it to him.
"Nico." I said to him gaining the boy's attention. "We need to talk later, meet me in my cabin."
"Okay." Nico looked at him and then back at his sister. "Will this be the last time I see you?" he asked, Bianca kneeled in front of her brother and looked him in the eye.
"Nico," Bianca said her eyes soft. "I have sworn my life to Lady Artemis and I will stand by my sisters of the Hunt, but know this." She smiled at him, "I will always love you Nico." I smiled at that and remembered something that Sasuke told me about his brother.
"You remind me a lot of Itachi Uchiha." I said, "That's not a bad thing I assure you." I laughed a bit then turned to Nico. "Run along Nico, say your goodbyes to your sister and then do your activities, when this meeting is done I will come find you." Nico nodded and left. I turned and looked at the other senior councillors, "So what's the plan?" Chiron looks at Clarisse.
"Well my dear, what have you found?" Chiron asked.
"Not much," Clarisse said, "but Luke has been probing old locations trying to scope out the Labyrinth." Everyone's eyes widened in shock, my own included, "he is trying to map it but it he's found nothing so far, anyone who goes in doesn't come out."
"Any other news?" I asked, "Anything me might be able to use?"
"There is a way to walk the labyrinth if you remember the legends."
"Ariadne string." I said, "That's what's he's after, that's what he's searching for, but to what end?" I said, "What's the nearest labyrinth entrance to camp?"
"Two miles from here,"
"That wouldn't buypass our defenses, there must be something, we're not seeing."
"Is there an entrance in camp?" Annabeth asked.
"Not that I know of." Chiron said.
"But if there is," I said looking at everyone, "Luke would know about it." I shook my head, "This speculation does us no good, for now we should prep our defenses," I looked at Chiron. "There has to be more demigods we can call on, maybe other groups somewhere." Chiron flinched, it was so slight that no one else notices but I did, I crossed my arms and thought about what that could mean.
"No, Percy," He said sadly, "there aren't."
"Then we need to find any demigods we can and recruit them before Luke and his forces find them." I looked around, "In the meantime I'm going to spend the winter and the rest of the year whipping the forces we have into shape." I smiled sickly at the pale faces I could see. "So get ready training starts at 8:00 am sharp."
"Today?" Connor asked trepidatiously.
"No there are some things I need to take care of so we will start tomorrow." I got up and turned on my heel then went to go find Nico. A while later I found him in the sword arena practicing with a sword that was clearly two sizes too big for him. "Nico." he turned to me and he put the sword down.
"Hi Percy." Nico said.
"Follow me, we need to talk to your father."
"My father?"
"Yes, I know who your father is and we're going to talk to him."
"Well don't keep me waiting!"
"Later, the less people know who your divine father is the better." I turned on my heel and walked towards my Cabin.
"Why is it a bad thing?" Nico asked as he followed me.
"I will explain everything once we contact your father." Nico and I continued walking. "By the way Nico,"
"Yes?"
"Did you practice with Kimimaro's power like I asked you to."
"Yeah I'm a lot better but I still don't have enough chakra in order to really use it properly."
"Hopefully your father can help you with that." I opened the door to my cabin, walk in then closed the door when Nico followed in. "Activate." seals spread around the room.
"What are those?"
"Silencing seals, now no one from the outside can hear us." I reached into the saltwater spring and fished around for a Drachma, after I found one I held it up and looked at the rainbow being formed in the misty light of Dawn. "O, Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow, accept my offering." I threw the coin into the mist which shimmered and disappeared.
"What was that?"
"Iris messaging, The Rainbow Goddess Iris carries messages for the gods. If you know how to ask, and she's not too busy, she'll do the same for half-bloods."
"How does it work?"
"I'll show you," I turned my attention back to the mist clearly waiting for me to place my call. "Show me Lord Hades in the Underworld." the mist shimmered and soon a screen of Hades and another woman talking back and forth.
"How many times do I have to tell you Persephone?" Hades asked "Cerberus is not allowed to eat mortal food it upsets his stomach."
"Well he eats mortals all the time and he never has shown any signs of upset stomach." The woman, who was clearly Persephone, countered.
"Those are souls as I've told you over and over that's different."
"I can spoil my dog if I want to."
"He's our dog for the last time." I had to hold back a laugh but couldn't help but snicker slightly, both God and Goddess turned to the sound.
"Uh," I said as I rubbed the back of my head, "is this a bad time?"
"No," Hades said sending one last glare at his wife, "we are just having one of those petty married couple arguments, get used to it Jackson, you and that Annabeth of yours will experience it soon." I let lose a small chuckle at this, Hades cleared his throat, "So is this what we discussed on Olympus?"
"Yes."
"Persephone, dear, could you give me some time, if you want you can go play with Cerberus I'm sure he'd love that."
"Of course my lord." Persephone said bowing, then she walked out.
"Where is Nico?" Hades asked me.
"He's behind me." I said stepping sideways revealing Nico who was slightly shivering because of the Aura that Hades was letting loose. "Also, could you turn down the Aura Nico can't handle it." Hades looked at Nico.
"Nico." Hades said softly.
"Y-yes." Nico stuttered looking up at Hades.
"How are you doing my boy?"
"Uh, good I guess," Nico looked at the statue that his sister gave him, then back at Hades, "You don't look like your statue."
"Statue?" Hades looked confused, Nico held up the statue and showed it to Hades "Is that from that Game Mythomagic?"
"You know about Mythomagic?"
"Yes and I'm going to yell at Hermes for inventing it, he always gave me the shaft with that game."
"Language." I chided Hades.
"You're scolding a God on his choice of Language?" Hades looked at me raising an eyebrow.
"Wouldn't be the first time I talked back to a god."
"Very True." Hades said looking at me then back at Nico. "Look Nico, you have no reason to trust me but I am your father, it would be best if you joined me in the Underworld, I can train you in both your powers that you gained from me and the powers that you gained from," Hades looked at me, "What was it called again?"
"Shikotsumyaku."
"Yes, that."
"How come I have to come to the underworld?" Nico asked
"Because of the Great Prophecy." I said looking at Nico.
"The Great Prophecy?"
"Yes." Hades said, "I am sworn to silence so I can't speak it but it warns about the next Demigod of the Eldest Gods, Me, Poseidon and Zeus, to turn 16, right now that looks like its going to be Percy, but if the Titan's discovered you were my son they would stop at nothing to recruit you onto their side, to try and change the prophecy."
"When will I travel to the Underworld?"
"Now." Hades waved his hand and Nico's shadow rose up, grabbed him and then sank back into the ground. Nico reappeared right behind Hades and looked around then looked at me.
"Uh, sooo, this is so weird." Nico said
"Don't worry it felt weird for me too." I said smiling, "The next time I see you Nico," I activated my sharingan and looked at him with a sick smile. "I want to see how well you dance." Nico paled at that and hid behind his father who laughed slightly.
"Enough threatening my son, Jackson."
"Sure ruin all my fun." I said. "Well Nico, Good luck and Lord Hades a fine day to you both."
"To you as well Jackson."
"See ya Percy." Nico said as I waved my hand through the connection, I turned to Kurama who was laying down on my bed.
"Do you have it?" Kurama opened one eye and unwrapped his tails holding out a vial of blood.
"Yes, I don't know how she's going to react." Kurama said as I grabbed the vial of blood.
"That doesn't matter, we need her help." I walked out to the top of Half Blood Hill with Kurama trotting behind me, as I looked over the hill watching the sun rise made a Kage Bunshin and then started weaving the signs for Edo Tensei. "Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei." as the dust rose up and formed into a female woman shorting my hair turning it blond and in a few minutes Tsunade Senju was once again in the world of the living.
"Where am I?" Tsunade asked
"You are in a state called New York, but more specifically a camp for children of Gods." Tsunade looked at me
"Who are you?"
"My name is Percy Jackson, I am descendant of Sasuke Uchiha and those who survived the eradication of the Shinobi world."
"'Eradication of the Shinobi world' what do you mean the Eradication of the shinobi world?"
"You see when the earth mother Gaia rose up from the void of Chaos she wanted to establish a world for her and her kin, the Primordials, rulers of a realm where they were invincible, Gaia is invincible while she stands on the earth, Ouranos was invisible in the sky, Pontos is invincible in the sea and he is the primordial that I respect as he is the absolute of my father's realm, never met the guy but dad says he's nice unlike most of his kin."
"So then what happened to the people of the five shinobi nations, Konoha, Kumo and the others."
"Gone, this world is fundamentally different than the world you know, nations are more diverse in territory, the one where we are right now is called the United States, but that is neither here nor there I want to talk to you about the reason I summoned you."
"Wait you said Children of God's right?"
"Yes, why?"
"Kami, Yami and the Shinigami had children?"
"No those gods predate the Primordials and were absolute, but when humanity forgot about them they faded away, or at least that's what I think happened, they might be around still but I don't know. The gods I speak of came along about 3000 years ago, give or take, and are the Greek gods that started in Greece. They followed the flame of the west over the last 3000 years and are now in the United States."
"I thought gods couldn't have children with mortals." I chuckled slightly, at that.
"The Greek gods have children with mortals and immortals, but we, children of mortal and immortal are called Demigods and are more often than not results of affairs, for example me, I am the son of the Sea God Poseidon, who had an affair of my mother, who is an Uchiha like me and thus I have the sharingan." I activated my sharingan showing it to Tsunade.
"Don't their wives get mad at them, I know I would."
"Well Lady Hera hates it when my uncle, Lord Zeus cheats on her but she is the goddess of marriage so that's understandable. My step mom Lady Amphitrite, um I don't know I've never met her, but dad says she's a real sweetheart, I've never met Lady Persephone and I don't know how she reacts to my other Uncle Lord Hades' illegitimate children. Lady Aphrodite has children both mortal and Immortal that aren't her husband Lord Hephaestus, the rest is completely unclear." I shrugged.
"So why did you summon me?"
"I need your help." I turned on my heel and gestured towards the valley below, "Most of the campers here are children of Gods or Goddesses, and we are the brink of a new war and I think that you would be able to help us by training Medical ninja."
"If the shinobi world isn't around anymore then how will I train them? They can't access chakra they won't be able to use any of my techniques."
"The funny thing is that they have magic and it's very similar to Chakra and with a little help from both of us they will wield chakra like masters." I activated the Rinnegan and looked at Tsunade with the eyes, "and with power of the rinnegan anything is possible." I held out my hand to the reanimated Tsunade, "What do you say?" Tsunade grabbed it and shook it,
"Count me in, but don't think that I will take it easy on them."
"I wouldn't expect you to." I smiled my plan started to unfold, the next day I had the whole camp in front of me and several reanimated Shinobi from Konoha standing behind me. "Alright, the people behind me are masters of a certain aspect of Shinobi arts and even clan jutsu." I started pacing back and forth looking at the cabins then stopped back in the middle and pointed to Tsunade. "This is Tsunade Senju, she is a master of Medical Ninjutsu and healing arts, the Apollo Cabin and Aphrodite Cabin will study under her and people that I will reanimate if she needs help teaching you. Medical Ninjutsu requires high levels of Chakra control and as such we will start there with you all." Next I pointed to Guy and Rock Lee. "These two, questionably dressed, Gentlemen, are masters of Taijutsu and the Ares cabin will learn from them," I looked at Guy and Lee. "You two are not to try and make them wear the spandex you two wear."
"But we must spread our youthful attitude." Guy said, I turned to him and blasted him with Killer Intent,
"No," I said stomped my foot shutting the taijutsu master up. "Next, is the Second Mizukage he is a master of Genjutsu and Inton."
"Hello everyone." Gengetsu said,
"Where are his eyebrows?" I heard some mutter, Gengetsu turned to the person who asked and his temper flared.
"ALRIGHT WHO SAID THAT?!" He started to step forward but I used Edo Tensei's control over the dead to make him stop.
"Not now." I said, "he is going to teach the Those who don't wish to learn more combat oriented skills Genjutsu as it can turn the tide of a battle by messing with the mind." Next I pointed at Zabuza Momochi, "this is Zabuza Momochi, he is a master the silent killing technique, I may end up regretting this I will be sending him with the Hermes cabin, if you find difficulty with silent killing then roam around from training to training to find what fits you best. Next, the Athena Cabin will be learning Fuinjutsu from Kushina Uzumaki as drawing seals is a great way to practice architecture plans. Last but certainly not least, the Hephaestus cabin will be learning Yoton Ninjutsu from Roshi and the Yonbi, I think that you will find it most useful." Everyone nodded and each Edo Tensei divided them into the groups while I wandered from group to group helping with instruction, keeping the Hermes cabin in line, and resummoned Edo Tensei that dispelled if their time ran out, I knew that this was the beginning of the rebirth of the Shinobi world. Just then Grover ran up to me his eyes widened in excitement,
"Percy!" he shouted
"What's up?" I looked at him,
"He spoke to me!'
"Who?"
"The Lord Pan, he spoke in my mind."
"What did he say?"
"Three words, 'I await you.'" I smiled and looked at him.
"So this is what I saw."
"What do you mean?"
"Remember how I told you back on the quest for the Master Bolt that'd you'd be the one to find Pan."
"Yeah, I thought you were just saying that to comfort me."
"No, It was a vision from the future, I'm saying you'll find Pan, it will happen soon."
