"1, 2, …, 6 enemies all with the standard bow and hunting knife of the Hunt, accompanied by nearly a dozen wolves in 10m distance, they come in pretty fast and loud. Most likely a misdirection for a single person who tries to sneak in and steal the flag unnoticed." All this Naruto analyzed in seconds after crossing the border between the two territories. Annabeth, as the leader and tactician had allowed him to go in as a Solo team, at the right flank, while bigger teams of campers approached through the middle and the left flank. The remaining had been ordered to do border patrol, mainly because they all were relatively new campers, son and daughters of minor gods, who just had started to bring them to the camp and acknowledge them in the recent time. While not being trained enough to be a real opponent in a fight, they still were a useful deterrent. Alongside both Thalia and Percy, the new campers were the main reason the camp had won so many games in recent time, with all the new half-bloods, the hunters were outnumbered nearly 1 to 10.
Naruto took a deep breath, before quickly jumping into action, like Orochimaru had once done in the forest of death, he yelled "Futon: Daitoppa (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)" and sucesfully forced the Hunters to break their formation. Before they could react and start firing arrows at him, the blonde had drawn one of his ninjatos and began to cut the bow strings of the Hunters. It took him just seconds before all of their bows were disarmed and he began the hand-seals for a second jutsu. Slamming his hands on the ground as he called out "Doton: Ganchuurou (Earth Release: Rock Pillar Prison)" creating several pillars that would trap the Hunters for some time. Afterwards he continued his path towards the center of the enemies' side, hoping to find the flag on his way.
After only a few moments he came upon a clearing, where the red flag of the Hunters was guarded by two girls and at least a dozen of wolves. He couldn't see, nor hear any of the other teams, and therefore proceeded to capture the flag on his own. In an incredible burst of speed, his swept into the middle of the clearing past the wolves, grabbed the flag and was gone before the two Hunters had fully turned towards him. Leaving them to wonder why their wolves hadn't made a move against the camper.
Even before the Hunters were able to signal the loss of their flag to their teammates, Naruto had crossed the border, just to see Chiron standing in the same spot as before. The centaur was currently engaged in a conversation with a satyr, so Naruto merely stood next to the horse-man with the flag nonchalantly at his side. A few moments later, Chiron who still hadn't noticed the blonde ninja, was surprised by the team of campers that had remained with Annabeth and began to run into the clearing towards the border, to possibly help whoever had captured the flag. They had already made their way across half the field, before one of them came to an abrupt stop and pointed at Naruto. It was at this moment Chiron, became aware of the shinobi. Before the centaur could say something, the campers broke out into cheering, quickly attracting the remaining Hunters and campers.
It was at this moment, right after Naruto has rammed the flag pole into the ground, that Artemis decided to finally claim her son. On of the wolves that had came into the clearing with campers made his way through the mass of people, and to the amazement of everyone, began nuzzling his nose against Naruto's pants, who started pating the canine. Now normally an wolf coming up to a random person and start nuzzling them would be considered weird enough, but Artemis wolves have been known to never ever let them self pet by anyone outside the Hunt, even more so if the person was male. This alone shocked the Hunters and many campers to their core.
Quickly afterwards on of the Ares campers pointed at the flag and said, "It changes!" which was followed by everyone gaze concentrating on the flag, because it would change into the symbol of whoever Naruto's parent was after he had captured the flag.
Moments passed, but the only change that happened was the flag turning from red to blue, keeping the symbol of Artemis. The first to broke the silence was Annabeth with a simple "No way.", said with such confusion and disbelive that Naruto nearly started to laugh. "No fucking way."
Several of the other campers and Hunters seemed to have come to the same conclusion, but no one dared to speak it out loud.
Chiron for once, began to sweat like he hadn't done in years. The flag keeping the symbol of Artemis could only mean one thing, and it was his task to proclaim Naruto as his son, but if there was any fool play here and he would do this… he didn't really like to thing what Artemis would do to him.
A few tense seconds passed, before the symbol of Artemis showed again, this time as an projection about Naruto's head. It was a that moment that Chiron decided, that if this was some sort of prank, the culprit would most likely pay for it, so a loud as possible he proclaimed, "All Hail Naruto Namikaze, Son of Artemis, the goddess of the Hunt!" Before the campers could realize what had happened or even respond, Dionysus came into the clearing, laughing more than he had done in decades. Between his fits of giggles he managed to say something about Artemis and that Naruto would need to come with him to the Olympus.
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On Mount Olympus, a deadly silent was nearly omnipresent, everyone had heard Chiron proclaim Naruto as the son of Artemis and nobody dared to say something, that is until Apollo broke out of his stupor and with widest possible grin raised towards Artemis' temple only announced by an extremely loud "WHAT?"
Just minutes later the Olympic council consisting of the 12 major gods had assembled, only waiting for Dionysus to arrive with the subject of the meeting.
Artemis broke the tension by asking "So, I take it you want answers?"
"Yes, you can imagine my surprise when I found out that you broke your oath" Hermes was the first to response
"I assure you" Artemis said with a raised eyebrow, indicating the stupidity of the gods statement, "that as the goddess of childbirth I have ways to give life without breaking my oath."
"So why haven't you done so before?" asked Athena, who like the rest of the council had somewhat believed that she was the only immortal to give birth to demigod through uncommon means.
"Because, I never have found someone suitable before."
Before any of the gods could ask further questions, Hera to the surprise of everyone suddenly asked, "Did you marry him?"
Artemis, a little bewildered by her step-mothers interest in the matter, she normally was content with simply hating the children of other gods silently, gave a nod in response.
"Then I approve of this child.", this simple sentence made everyone in attendance slag-jawed, not once in the entire history of Mt. Olympus had Hera acknowledged a half-blood let alone approved. "Why are you so astonished? I'm the goddess of marriage, approving of children born in one is my job'" she simply reasoned.
Dionysus arrived with said demi god before anyone had chance to talk, the god of wine took his place and all eyes now where on Naruto.
"So where were you born nephew?" apollo asked jokingly to ease the tension.
"Konohagakure no Sato" Naruto answered simply only to get expressions from the council who had used their chance to visit the elemental nations in the past
"Umm, but that… umm, that… uh, isn't that in another dimension? How did you get him here, sis?"
"That's for me to know and for you to find out."
"You should bow brat." Ares said absent mindedly.
Naruto only raised an eyebrow before answering, "I bow to no one but the Hokage."
"Enough", boomed Zeus voice how he complemented the possible means of Naruto's existence in the past minutes, "It's obvious that the boy is the one meant in the prophecy, even now he defice the sacred traditions of Mount Olympus, we need to destroy him before he can destroy us," he finished and ready his master bolt to strike Naruto down.
"Brother you know that we can't prevent prophecies like that" Poseidon argued, leading to the council braking out into bickering about what should happen with the blonde shinobi.
Naruto, being pissed of that they thought they could decide about his live or death, he had after all fought and somewhat won against a primordial, made himself know with a forced cough. "That is all nice and stuff", he said with a sweet smile, "But what makes you think I would let myself be killed in the first place? That I would go down without a fight? That my death wouldn't result in more destruction than I could hope to achieve while being alive?"
"You can't believe that you have a chance of fighting against us, do you?", Zeus said with an honestly bewildered look, "And what possible destruction could you bring outside of the prophecy?"
"Uh, so you don't know?", Naruto asked before pulling up his shirt, revealing the seal on his stomach, before canceling chakar in his fingers and seemingly breaking the single.
"Right now, the only thing that prevent the Ten-Tails, the primordial of my world as you might know, from destroying this plane of existence, is my will. I would advice you to not test it.", it was a blatant lie on Naruto's part, he had simply used a Genjutsu to make the seal appear to shatter, not actual messing with the work at all. But he was sure the gods wouldn't dare to call his bluff, far to big was the fear of another primordial raging freely.
"You would so willingly sacrifice your live and plunge the world in chaos just out of spite?" Zeus asked with narrowed eyes.
"Not necessarily" Naruto answered with a shrug, "I of course would try to fight you first, but I have already died for my beliefs once and would do so again." that elected a snort of amusement from the god before he asked "Fight me?", Naruto only raised a single eyebrow before continuing "I have fought and defeated a goddess before, not any goddess but the all-mother of chakra, I single handedly stopped a raging primordial, do you want to test me, sparky?"
Zeus would have fried the insolent brat, he didn't care about his claims to have fought other gods, but the primordial terrified him, so with a grunt of acknowledgment he signaled that he wouldn't pursue the death of Naruto, for now, and ended the meeting.
The gods left one by one until only Artemis remained, who shrunk down to Naruto's size before embracing him "I expect you to fight on the side of my hunters now Naruto, I can't have them loose to the children of other gods." she said with amusement in her voice.
"But technically the Artemis cabin won nonetheless" he said with a grin before adopting a somewhat uneasy expression, "Where am I supposed to sleep now? I mean if it's a problem I can still sleep in the forest or maybe the Apollo…" he was interrupted by his mother hugging him tightly to her again.
"I thought I made it clear that you are my child first and foremost, I have already informed Zoe that the new room is for you." she said before becoming more serious, "But I won't tolerate any, any funny business, understood?"
Naruto looked affronted before saying, "I am your son, I don't thing I could even do something like that, even if wouldn't know the pain something like that would and should result in."
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In the camp the hunters couldn't wrap their minds around the fact that their lady had a child, a son nonetheless. On one side they hated males and had the instinct that Naruto defiled their lady by his mere existence, on the other side they literally worshiped Artemis and everything she did, wouldn't that also extend to her offspring?
Before they could come to a conclusion, a flash of light temporarily blinded them to reveal their Lady, with the boy she had so recently claimed at her side. The whole group, felt to their knees at once, bowing their heads to Artemis in reverence, after they hadn't seen her for a long time.
"Mi lady, should I prepare the Hunters to move out?" Zoe, as the Lieutant and leader of the group in Artemis absence, asked.
"Not quite yet, there are a few things I will have to take care of, but soon enough we will be hunting again. Till than I expect you to represent me well and to not bring shame upon me, that especially includes you as my son, Naruto." Artemis answered and turned to Naruto to give him a stern look. "It wouldn't be good if you would embarrass and hinder us once we get back into the wildness, so listen to my hunters, when they explain to you how we hunt," she lectured, ignoring the several grasp from her hunters and Naruto alike when she indirectly stated that he would accompany them. The goddess of the hunt gave her servants a piercing stare and continued in a somewhat harsher voice, "And do not test my patience on this, Naruto is my son, end of discussion."