"Oi Brat, do you think that anyone will seriously do this?"

"Sure they will buddy. They love my story and what to see what will happen next, that is why Son of the Queens will revive the most votes and be updated next."

"As if! They clearly will want the reading as I can make sure that the work is funny and humiliates you too."

"WHAT! You jerk that wasn't the deal! The G.R.O.S.S rules prohibit that!"

"Well I am altering the deal, pray that I don't do do a second time."

"Well I'm the main character so what i say goes."

"Well I am the one who is doing all the work as your too short."

"YOU TAKE THAT BACK! I AM NOT SHORT!

"Says the shaven dwarf."

"Flee ridden carpet!"

-Do to difficulties we are sorry to say that Naruto and Kuruma are unavailable at this time. Please head on over to Roman Trooper's profile and vote on what should be updated-

"AAAAAHHHH! WHY PEPPER! WHY!?"

-... well updated after they are done fighting... again... sigh... I need a vacation-

-Three Days Later-

"WHY!?"

"Face it shorty, people love the reading and want it more than the main story."

"But the reading is soooo boring. Who wants to read the author's interpretation of the Percy Jackson world on this one?"

"Clearly the 66 voters out of the 92 wanted it. Along with the guest reviewers..."

"I too have votes..."

"26 isn't exactly close."

"Shut up. Hey everyone this is Naruto from Sun of the Queens in case you didn't know. If you did know great if not I am sorry for you. Do to the victory of this nine tailed rat-"

"RAT!?"

"You will have the reading done in about... whenever I say so."

"You can't do that!"

"Sure I can and will. There is no-"

*click*

"-Dang it."


"What was that?" Hades asked as the strange voices disappeared from the book that glowed with the signal of another chapter.

Apollo shrugged his shoulders as he looked over the book. "No idea. perhaps some process that we don't know about or some prank by the fates?"

"Well I am sure that what ever that was I would like to read." Artemis stated as she reached for the book. "It looks like Dionysus is still out of it. I must ask Percy, is your mother as... creative as this version?"

Percy sucked on his lips thinking. "There was that one time with a mugger I think when I was.. four? Five? That or it was a monster attack."

"Well I must send her a gift for several ideas to try on Zues when he acts up... again." Hera flatly said causing Zeus to open and close his mouth like a fish before glaring at his nephew. The demigod was going to find himself shocked every time he opened a door for the next month for the pain Zeus was going to suffer.

He wasn't being petty. Not. At. All.

Thalia rolled her eyes as Frank and Hazel kissed before smacking Percy. "Dude, stop day dreaming and pay attention."

"Sure."

"Ok lady Artemis please begin now that foam brain is paying attention."

"HEY!"

"Face it Kyuubi we're lost."

"No, I'm sure that we came this way."

"Where the man eating rats came from? Yeah right, we didn't even pass that overhead on our way though."

"Evil Creatures." Ares hissed out as memories of the tranches of the first would war came to mid and the giant rats that swarmed men. He blamed Artemis for their creation.

"Well you almost went dipping in acid and then did an Indiana Jones run with that boulder."

"Who?"

"Later Hazel." Came the demigods' response to the question to the poor girl from the past.

"You said that the lever was our way though! Also who believes a rabbit that was hiding ester eggs just happens to have a map of this place!? It's on an ester egg for crying out loud!"

Hermes blinked. "How did that thing survive?"

"What I want to know is how it made a map on an egg. I've tried and its not easy." Thalia grumbled, "don't ask guys."

"It was a good deal. Map for not being eaten. Not my fault for dropping it."

"It was a fricking fracking egg!"

Naruto and his friend Kyuubi were lost after Naruto discovered a stone with a glowing delta sign on it.

The smith god twirled his hammer. "Looks like the maze is where he is now."

"A shame too, those snake girls and him were cute together."

"MOM!"

With his captors after him, he jumped though the opening and closed the passageway behind him. Now he was standing in the middle of a tunnel with no idea where he was or how long he had been walking, running, climbing, and swimming though this... Whatever it was. Sitting down against the wall he began to cry, his hand made torch falling off to the side.

"Watch it!" Kyuubi yelled as he recoiled away from the flames that licked at his tails. Patting own the end of one of his tails he turned and glared at Naruto. "Stop crying and get up."

"Yeah brat! Man up and stop crying." Ares said sternly as if he was there.

"ARES!"

"What? He should."

Hera closed her eyes and began to count as her child once more tested her sanity.

Naruto just kept on crying as he was overwhelmed from everything that was happening and the tone that Kyuubi was using. He was tired and hungry. He wanted his mom and his family. He was upset that he was crying, he didn't cry. But he was done and his emotions were out of control.

"Tch. Whatever. I'm getting out of here." With his part done, the fox disappeared into the darkness, leaving Naruto truly alone.

Alone.

In the dark.

Hades rolled his eyes. "You make it sound so wrong."

"I hunt in the dark Hades. If anything you should be saying that to Apollo."

"Yea- HEY!"

Naruto didn't know how long he was alone for, crying. He hated it, he hated feeling so weak.

"Poor kid." Annebeth whispered as her mind went back to the first few days on the street. It was hard to adjust to the feeling of alone and knowing that there was no one to help you.

Getting up, he noticed with fascination that he felt stronger in the shadows. Like he was meant to be in the dark.

Persephone blinked her eyes as Anthea perked up. "So your children has a boost in the dark?"

"Mostly in dark forests but yes they can get stronger in the dark, but not like Nico or Hazel there." The queen of the underworld answered the wisdom goddess. "Also at a lower percentage unlike Kr. Jackson when he's wet."

"Overpowered ability that is." Ares grunted.

'Cool,' he thought as he looked around. Everything had a outline of color even thought he knew there was no light source. Not that he cared, he was a ninja and this was awesome.

"It is." The children of Hades (Pluto) said as Thalia rolled her eyes.

Jogging down a passage way he looked for anything useful. After moving some distance away from he was he looked at his gifts from his godly parents.

One was a body suit of black cloth and gray armor with the symbol of the camp on either shoulder. Apparently his godly mothers thought it was cute that he wanted to be a ninja demigod or thought he would look good as one, he didn't know.

"It works for him," Hestia smiled at the image of Naruto in his uniform.

"Ninja Demigods..." Apollo and Hermes grinned. "Transform!"

Zeus grabbed a bottle of wine as Hermes and Apollo changed into stereotypical ninja garb. He grasped another as Hades joined in.

Hades rolled his eyes at his brother's look. "What? I can too be a ninja."

"He has the invisibility of one with that helm of his too."

"Thank you Poseidon."

"I still haven't forgiven you for that Hades."

"I resend my thanks."

Percy leaned over to Nico. "What's That is he speaking of?"

"No idea."

Then again they may have been paying attention to his dream of becoming a ninja demigod legend. When he and his friend were hiding he had discovered by his great joy that the suit hand a minor camouflage abilities and pockets to fill with all sorts of things. It was however a little tight in some places he mused as he shifted it so it wasn't so tight on his rear.

"If only he was older, still a cute bun."

"MOM!"

Then there was his new weapon... if it could be considered one. While he was happy to get a weapon to kill monsters like his awesomely cool but dumb brother, he wished it wasn't so... so mundane. Taking it out of one of his pockets, Naruto looked at the bronze yo-yo. He had at first thought it was just a weapon in a form to carry like Percy's, to no such luck. Flicking it forward, he marveled at the way it moved though the air. He had yet to see how much string was attached to the yo-yo as it was magically connected, but also he didn't want to touch the string. He had discovered by mistake that the string was more like a wire of celestial bronze when he played with it without his suit gloves.

"Yo-Yo's are evil." Hermes hissed as he watched the mini clip of Naruto trying out the Yo-Yo.

"Your just mad that Help won the last few world records."

"Didn't he beat your last score by double and you were removed for cheating Apollo?"

"...Shut up..."

Blinking, he noticed that he was now in a room full of marble statues of the gods but at the same time not. Zeus looked more stern and more annoying to his eyes

Zeus puffed up. "I am not annoying."

"Eh..." Came the reply from the gods.

"Oi! Thalia, Jason tell them."

"Wha- No that's not fair to her! Thalia as your pardon you don't have to answer that."

"What about Jason?" Piper asked Artemis who turned to Hera.

Hera looked away. "... He's Roman so he can say whatever he wants to Zeus."

"Pleading the fifth here."

and Mr. D looked less fat.

The god pouted. "I'm not fat. Perhaps "

He thought about the room but choose to instead to give the dirty statutes a bit of cleaning. Looking around he found a rag and an empty bucket. Seeing that there was no water, he tried to summon some water using his powers.

"...I forgive the child's rudeness. Clearly if he is willing to take proper care for the statues of us he can forego punishment for the insults."

Mr. D sunk into his chair. "Aw."

"Watcha doing?" Naruto jumped at the sound of another human being's voice. Looking to the darkest part of the room as torches lit when he entered, was a boy wearing what the young demigod thought to be a bed sheet. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"Toga." The gods groaned out.

Apollo shook his head at Athena. "Why did you have to explain it as a bed sheet anyway?"

The goddess glowed at him with a twitching brow. "Says the one who was the proof reader."

"You didn't." Naruto flatly said, knowing it to be false. The other boy also knew but let it slide. "Who are you?"

The boy shrugged. "Just another person in this place. I was raised here and this is my home. Not many visitors here as they usually die or something horrible happens to the unlucky ones. You are lucky if you been in here for so long or just entered a while ago."

"Poor guy. That place was horrible." Percy shuttered at the thought of being trapped in that place since birth.

"Just entered to escape an overly affectingly lamina and her family." Naruto scowled as the other boy let out a bark of laughter. "It's not funny."

Hermes grinned. "Yes it is."

"Yes it is." Came the reply as the boy swings his legs back and forth. Naruto grumbled and went back to see if he could summon some water. The boy watched for a few seconds before opening his mouth. "You constipated or something? I can leave if you need to use the toilet but the gods wouldn't like you doing it in their presence."

'Already did that.' Naruto recalled the event with a frown on his face.

Leo bit his lip to stop from laughing as Zeus fizzled with ire. His fiends had to hid their smiles by drinking the juice provided by Hestia.

"I'm trying to summon some water so I can clean the statues."

"Why not use that pond?" Blinking Naruto looked where the boy pointed and his mouth dropped. There in the opposite side of the room was a pond with a spring bubbling where none was before. Snapping his head towards the boy Naruto's face said it all. "See? Much easier to do so now right?"

"Thanks. I'm Naruto, son of the queens. You?" Naruto asked as he raised his hand.

"Just call me Suraci, descendant of Athena." The now named Suraci stated as he stood up and took Naruto's hand.

"Suraci?" Annebeth asked her mother who blinked.

"I don't have any... oh that's clever."

"Suraci, Suraci..." Piper muttered under her breathe before stopping wait her eyes widening. "Wait, the reverse of Suraci is Icarus."

"Daedalus' son?" Jason asked as he looked at Hades who nodded.

"So, Naruto, shall we get to work?"

"Ok."

The two boys worked together on cleaning the statues of the gods together for some time swapping stories. For Naruto, he told stories of camp and his brother Percy. Suraci was interested to hear the stories and kept asking Naruto for details, which Naruto did his best of supply. Suraci in torn told Naruto several stories of the gods and his adventures he had had in the labyrinth, the name of the place they were in, and his cousin who visited him time to time.

"He hates that he has to get a permit to get here." Suraci grunted out as he went at a spot on the statue of Athena. "He can only come every once in a while when I'm stuck in here for most of the year looking for my father."

"Why not look outside here?" Naruto asked as he cleaned the statue of what he thought was Artemis. He wished that the goddess of the moon's statue would stop looking at him with a mixture of confusion and interest. It was creepy.

"Be careful around washing her boy, Arty is know to turn boys into something else."

"...Must you say it so vulgarity?"

"Oh Artemis I never knew you had such a dirty mind. Something to tell everyone."

Artemis went back to reading to stop herself from letting the goddess of love get to her.

Suraci shrugged his shoulders in acceptance. "My boss really wants to find my father and I have to return to his side every so many days. I'm lucky that I can even leave his domain to search instead of his enforcers. They already have to deal with other matters and he doesn't want them pulled from them for now. But his patience is wearing thin as of late."

The god of death hummed in thought. "Well he did like to wonder his fathers maze and I let him do so in case he could find his father..."

"Why did we never see him before?" Nico asked.

"Possibly he was in a different section of the maze or was the isle of the bless at the time."

Naruto didn't push on even as the younger boys thoughts were still o the idea of finding out who this boss was. "I think we're done here."

"Yeah. Hey, if you want out just do down the passageway and take the door you see on the left." Suraci helpfully stated as Naruto got up.

"Thanks Suraci. I'll see you again sometime or iris call?" Naruto asked only to see his knew found friend shake his head.

"I rather not." Before Naruto could ask he continued. "I have to be careful in here and an Iris message could let him find out I'm looking for him. That would make out our reunion that much more problematic."

"And ghosts can't Iris call. It would cause too many issues." Hades grunted as he thought about all the problems it would cause him. 'All that extra paperwork.'

Nodding his head, Naruto set forth once more leaving Suraci behind. Smirking Suraci watched as the young demigod left before vanishing. Lord Hades would like to know more on what he had found out about Naruto and Suraci was still in hot water with the lord of the dead. 'Good luck young demigod.' The ghost thought as he finished vanishing. 'You'll need it as the gods aren't so forgiving as they say they are.'

"Yes. Yes they are." The demigods drone out in sync causing Zeus to eye them with a twiching eye.

"You should see Apollo about that twitch brother."

"Shut it flipper."

"OI!"

"Hey Suraci you coming or what?" Naruto asked as he looked into the room. Seeing no one he scratched his head and went back towards the exit. 'That was weird.'

Nico smiled, he loved to do that to people. Hades just gave a thumbs up.

'Stupid ningen. Why I even help him is beyond me.' Kyuubi humphed out as he trotted though the passage way. 'I should have not let him go though with the idea of coming down here and now I'm lost. I rather be stuck behind the seal then in this thing then walking in this filthy sewer system.'

He had no idea how long he had been on the move for and he didn't care. Munching on a squirrel that barely put up a fight he tried to make sense of the place. So far he had avoid being skewed, cut into pieces, falling into a pit of crocodiles, and fleeing from an acid mist filled room.

"...Ok now I really wished I had the chance to see it." Leo wined out as Piper and Jason stared at him in horror.

"We nearly died and you want to enter it again!?" Jason gasped at him.

"What? That was the new version. This is it in its prime."

Piper covered her face. "Di immortals Leo."

"Keep us out of this." Demeter huffed as she flinged a husked corn at Leo who was starting to emit steam.

Flicking his tails side to side he pawed the ground in agitation.

'Dam it. I miss him.'

A sound from up ahead derailed Kyuubi from his thoughts. Moving forward in a low stalking manner, he moved with silence, tails waving behind slowly. Eyes glittering, he slowly saw a light form up ahead. Exiting though a hole his mouth dropped at the sight of a vixen grooming herself in the moonlight.

"Can you feel the love tonight~" Apollo and Aphrodite.

Artemis ending it by saying a simple, "No."

Blinking his eyes, Naruto looked around in wonder and shock. He was in the middle of nowhere and he had discovered the exit was an abandoned port-a-potty. Looking around, he tried to get an idea where he was. Trees went on for miles around him as well as a ring of semi-snow covered mountains.

"Ok Hermes where is he?"

The god of travels hummed in thought. "I'm not sure yet. Give me a bit."

"Good thing Grover helped me with finding my position using the stars and my mother on what to do if I get lost." Naruto stated with bravo.

Reyna, Percy and Thalia nodded in approval. Each for a different reason that lead to them learning the skill.

"That is useful even today." Artemis voiced her approval with Ares and Athena agreeing with her.

Several seconds pasted before the demigod stared to scream for help.

"...That works too.." Athena flay said as her sister deflated.

"So Arty-"

"Finish that sentence Apollo. I dare you."

"Shutting up now."

After several minutes that felt like hours, he stopped as his throat was sore. Rubbing it as it was painfully sore, he began to walk towards the west based off the stars.

'I bet that Kyuubi is still lost in that place.' He ideally thought with a snicker as he hopped across a stream. Hearing a noise off to the right of him, Naruto froze. It wasn't the herd of American bison that were sleeping that gave him pause.

"...Yellowstone. He's in Yellowstone."

"What, you didn't figure it out until now?"

"Just because I travel doesn't mean that I recall everything Jackass D."

"Leave my animal out of this." Hestia huffed causing the brother to stop and glow at one another.

No, it was the massive bronze bulls that were looking at his direction. 'Aw F**k'

"Oh yes, I place the majority of them in Yellowstone in the 1870s..." Hepl stated absent mindlessly.

The largest bull let out a mechanical roar before charging along with it's siblings. If not for his throat being too sore to scream, Naruto took off with one of silence. The herd of American bison scattered and Naruto was lucky none of them were moving towards him. However he still had thirteen angry demigod hating bronze bulls of the smith god after him. The earth trembled as they moved and Naruto was lucky he could still find traction do to training. But there was a problem, he was running out of forest and there was a large plain ahead of him full of hot springs.

The group leaned towards Artemis in anticipation.

Seeing that he had no choice in the matter, seeing as the trees that were between him and the bulls were being uprooted or smashed though, Naruto pressed on. Jumping into the air he avoided being speared though by several buzz-saws and used the steam from on of the hot springs to glide over unstable land. Glancing back he grinned nervelessly at the sight of one of the bulls melting in the waters.

'So avoid being killed by bronze bulls and acid hot springs. Joy.' He then yipped as a plasma charge went by him. 'And now also more ranged weaponry. Thank you Hephaestus for such deadly monsters. Not.'

"Your welcome."

"I think he was insulting you."

"..."

Landing, Naruto winced as his ankle twisted at an unnatural angle as the ground gave way.

Apollo nodded. "A near clean beak that is."

Pushing though the pain, he kept on moving with an increasingly painful limp.

"And your making it worse for yourself."

"I think he has bigger issues Lord Apollo."

"Oh? oh, yes the bulls I guess that is more of a priority than the ankle."

Taking out his yo-yo he attacked the nearest bull and entangled the legs making it fall to the ground and being gored by one of its brothers. Calling the end of the yo-yo, Naruto missed the rock in his path. He went down with a tumble and the pain increase tenfold. He raised his arms preparation for his death by trampling and realized with a stupid thought that he had the toll for Thanos on him.

Hades rolled his eyes. "At least you do. I don't see why the camps can't send me a payment in advance in case of death."

"Because we like living and it doesn't come cheap? Plus we don't want to tempt fate." Percy foolishly answered the god.

"Nonsense, a one time deposit and then you don't have to worry about not having the toll on you when you die."

"Honey," Hades wife whispered into his ear. "I don't think you can win this. Chiron stopped that remember."

"I do.."

'I love you mom, Percy.' Closing his eyes he waited for the god of death to take him.

It was not to be.

Several silver arrows whizzed by his head striking the bulls.

"GO hunters!" Thalia cheered.

The bulls let out mechanical noises in pain and frustration as they were denied their kill as the arrows pieced their hides. Noticing he wasn't dead, Naruto sat up as several girls raced by him with timber wolves chasing after the fleeing monsters. One stopped next to him and leaned forward and looked at his leg. Looking a her, Naruto noticed a tiara on her head as she barked orders to the other girls.

'Zoe.' The goddess of the hunt thought with pride of her old Lt. She was missed in the hunt as were many that served under her over the many dusty years.

His hearing was messed up do to a ringing in his ears but it was slowly fading.

"Who... Who are you?" He asked in a raspy voice. Or at least he tried. His throat was so sore that it it was painful to make the words and when they came out is was a pathetic wheeze.

The girl smiled. "It's alright miss. We're the Hunters of Artemis and your safe now."

All laughed over the idea of Nightshade not noticing Naruto was a boy. Even Artemis cracked a grin.

Looking over him she leaned over and touched his leg. Naruto hissed and the girl clicked her tongue. "It's severely sprained. I'll have to take you to camp to fix you up. So up you go."

Naruto felt his heart his heart sink at the sight of her smiling face as she lifted him up. He knew the stories from ancient Greece and from the other campers about the hunters and their anti-boy status. His voice was too gone to plead for mercy as the unnamed huntress carried him like a sack of grain to correct her that he was a boy. Not a girl.

"We're not that bad." Artemis pouted as Thalia made a chopping motion to her demigod friends not to question it.

"It's ok girl. You'll be feeling better in no time." The hunter tried to calm Naruto down as he started to cry. "In fact, once we take care of that leg we'll take a dip in one of the safer hot springs to relax and you can tell us your story ok?"

'Death by monster bulls or angry hunters of Artemis. I rather the monsters.'

"Monsters will end it faster." Athena agreed with the boy as the males all paled.

"But think, what a way to go. Tender loving care from the hunters..."

"...Leo either you take that back or Hades will get your soul after some tender loving care with us." Thalia hissed out.

"... I have a titan as a gf friend so whom am I to judge." He stammered out in a cold sweat.

"Good."

Naruto wailed in his mind as his imagination ran wild about all the painful things the hunters would do to him. The hunter didn't seem to notice his tension as they entered the camp and called out to someone called Ruby. Being smart, he hoped, Naruto kept his eyes closed so that he would be spared the pain of looking at the girls when Artemis came.

Aphrodite smiled softly as she recalled her daughter who joined the hunt in the sixteen hundreds.

"It's a clean break, not a sprain Zoe. Also, it seems that her throat is swollen. She will be unable to speak or swallow for several hours so will have to wait to get her story. Nothing to worry about. I'll fix her up and we can go take her with us to the spring. I really need to get the sweat and dirt off my breasts."

"So much like like your mother." Naruto heard the one called Zoe mock gasp in a teasing matter. He then heard a yelp of pain then laughter as she left.

"Just because my mother is Aphrodite doesn't mean I like being clean Zoe. I know that you enjoy a good long bath in a hot spring after a good hunt." Ruby retorted as her hunter sister left. "Now lets fix you up honey. I know scary it is for a nine year this is but you have nothing to fear from us. And if you ask me you look really pretty."

"So that's how old he is." Frank stated.

"Wait that means we're the same age." Nico realized in surprise.

"That's if you leave the hotel at the same time you did here."

Naruto felt lines of sweat trail down is body as he felt her look at him top to bottom. 'I'm dead. I'm so dead. My souls is going to ripped to shreds by Artemis I know it. I'm dead. I'm so dead...'

"Now let's get you out of this suit your wearing."

Naruto fainted then and there in terror.

"So Arty..."

"It ends there."

"Keep reading." Zeus ordered as he was getting into it.

"Fine." Artemis opened the book to keep reading...


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