Hey, y'all!

How are you guys? Sorry, this update is way too late, I know.

I had planned on bi-weekly updates when i wrote the first chapter of the story, but there was quite a lot going on.

A few review responses first:

Perennial Dust : I get where you're coming from. But the reason he stuck around is because he felt responsible for the children he rescued. I think this chapter should give just a little insight. But you'll have quite a lot of Naruto saying one thing and doing the other. That is because the Naruto I have portrayed, he wants everyone to look at him in a specific way, as a guy who doesn't give a shit about anything, but in reality isn't very different from the cheerful and caring Naruto he once was.

Raimon : Starlord is amaing imo. And so is the theme song. If this Naruto reminds you of him, I guess I'm doing it right.

Djberneman : I have some quite fun things planned for the hellhound. Stick around eh ;)

pokemonrot377 : Got some of that planned ;)

DarkShadowRaven : Yes, he is quite old. And regarding all the other questions you might have in mind, they'll be cleared out soon in upcoming chapters.

Here you go! The second chapter!

Enjoy!

The summer sun was blazing, illuminating the valley on which the Camp Half-Blood spread out. Teenagers, and a few kids could be seen going on about their jobs or playing around.

Demigods were practising archery and sword fighting, and some could also be seen trying to scale a wall while lava spurted all around them.

"Close your mouth, Finn. An insect might find it interesting and fly in."

Finn shut his mouth abruptly, but nothing could make him shut his widened eyes. He looked on in amazement at the camp spread out on the valley, and the unique style of architecture of the buildings. He was horrified and amazed at the same time, when he saw a kid scramble up the wall while hot boiling lava poured around him. He looked at kids fighting each other with swords glinting in the sun, and saw kids using bows to shoot arrows at dummies.

Accompanying Finn, was a tall blonde, with a very large dog by his side. And the dog, was not a normal dog. It was a hellhound, from the depths of the underworld. He occasionally licked the blonde's elbow, and wettened his sleeve with his saliva, much to his annoyance.

When he did it once more, Naruto shouted in annoyance, "You're doing it just to irritate me, aren't you?!"

The hellhound tilted his head, and just wagged his tail.

"I knew it! No more treats for the day." Naruto huffed in annoyance.

The hellhound started looking at him, with large teary eyes, and his tail stopped wagging and drooped.

Naruto knew that if he looked at the hellhound, his resolve would crumble. How does a hellhound manage to pull off the infamous puppy dog eyes anyway?!

Thankfully, Finn decided to pull him out of his misery.

"Are…are all of these kids, just like me?" Finn looked up at the blonde man who had brought him here, with the promise of a home.

Naruto looked down at him and spoke, "Yes, one of their parents was a god or a goddess."

"So, who was my father or mother? I really hope my father is Zeus! He is so cool! I saw him in a movie; he appeared in a flash of lightning and started shocking everyone around! Boom! Wham!" The child imitated explosions with his hand as he spoke, and jumped around.

Naruto smiled at his innocence, and grabbed his hand, to lead him towards the camp, not too far away now. "It might be possible, Finn. And then in no time, you would be appearing in flashes of lighting and shocking monsters here and there too!"

"Wow! Really?!" He had to look up when he was talking to Naruto, because he was very tall.

"Yes Finn. Nothing is impossible if you are dedicated…,"

What he was saying was interrupted by a bark from his hellhound companion.

"Oh c'mon Sasuke, didn't I tell you? It is rude to interrupt when two people are talking!" He looked at his pet and scolded him.

And yes, he had named his hellhound Sasuke. Something about naming his dog after his now dead brother-like friend sounded like such an amusing and intriguing concept to the blonde that he went right ahead and did it. He sure hoped that it riled his former teammate up, wherever he was now.

Sasuke barked again.

Something about that line made the blonde guffaw.

He then looked at his pet, and saw that something was stopping him from moving ahead for some reason. Some kind of an invisible wall.

'Ah, the barrier I sensed earlier. It doesn't allow monsters to enter.'

"It would seem that you can't enter Sasuke. It's all right. You can go back to my house, and no going near the refrigerator again!"

Sasuke looked sad, but he trotted over to the nearest shadow, under a tree, and sank in it.

Naruto and Finn continued the rest of their walk through the valley, Finn still going on about how Poseidon for a dad would be cool too, as he would then be able to talk to fish, and Naruto smiling at him.

The blonde then gestured to a large farm house in front of him, and said, "And that, is where you will meet your teacher, Chiron. C'mon."

Naruto walked up to the porch, except he did not find Chiron there. Instead, sitting on a wooden chair near a card table, was a small porky man. He had a red nose, big watery eyes, and curly hair so black it was almost purple. He wore a tiger patterned Hawaiian shirt, and had bloodshot eyes.

He looked up at the tall blonde in front of him, and the young boy holding his arm.

A staring match took place between the blonde and the short man, neither of the backing down. Eventually, curiosity got the better of him though, and he asked Naruto, "Who are you? You don't look like a camper. Not that I would remember if you were."

"No, I am not a demigod, if that is what you mean. Where is Chiron?" Naruto asked him.

To be honest, this blonde riled Dionysus up. He walks in the camp casually like he owns the place, and proceeds to stare at him so rudely. Him! A god!

"What is your business with Chiron, mortal?" Dionysus asked, with a raised eyebrow.

"Who are you?"

To be honest, this porky man riled Naruto up. Something about him just tickled him the wrong way.

"A question is not answered with another question." Dionysus wasn't used to being talked to like this.

"It is when I want it to. Now, who are you?" Naruto could see that he was getting on his nerves, and he was immensely enjoying it as well.

"You want to know who I am?" Dionysus got up from his chair, walked up to the blonde, "I am Dionysus. The god of madness and wine."

Every word was spoken with much emphasis.

Dionysus expected the disrespectful blonde to back off, apologize, or even shout in disbelief.

He never expected him to start laughing.

"What is so funny, pray tell me?" Dionysus asked with clenched teeth.

The blonde chuckled again, and said, "Ah, that explains the smell."

Dionysus had enough disrespect for one day. He decided he would teach the boy some respect. He stared into the blue eyes of the blonde, that were glinting in the light, and showed him the worst of visions.

Visions of gruesome deaths, and people descending into insanity.

It would've been enough to knock a full grown man to down on the ground.

But the blonde laughed yet again.

"That the best you can think of?"

And suddenly, he saw the blonde's eyes flash red, before Dionysus found himself in a desert, dying from thirst, a goblet of wine a foot in front of him, but when he reached out to grab it, the goblet kept getting away from him farther and farther. Then he found himself drowning in the same goblet of wine. Then he found himself going insane, ripping his own fingers off. He then found himself wrapped in thorny vines, bleeding from having a million thorns pricking him.

Then, he found himself giving birth to a huge grape, thrice as large as a normal football.

He then found himself being raped, by the very same thorny vines that were all around him a moment before.

All of this, and more, in the span of a mere second.

When he was pulled out of the vision, he fell to his knees. The visions that he had just seen, they were vivid. They seemed as real as the air that he was thankfully breathing right now.

They had scared the shit out of Dionysus. Dionysus had been scared before. It was nothing new to him. His father, Zeus, scared him. Some of the monsters that were stuck into the Tartarus for eternity scared him. Some monsters that weren't in the Tartarus scared him even more.

But for the first time, in a thousand years, Dionysus realized what it felt like to have your life in danger. What it felt like to be a step away from dying.

What it felt like, to be truly afraid.

He turned, to look at the blonde, sitting on HIS chair, sipping on HIS can of strawberry soda.

"W-who are you?" He asked, still on the ground.

"Oh, just your common mere mortal." Was his reply.

Dionysus got up, and realised that he was cold when a light breeze flew past him. He was sweaty, and his tiger patterned shirt was soaked.

"Now, Dionysus, god of wine and madness, I hope we can be friends." Naruto said with a sweet smile.

Finn looked on to what had taken place before his eyes in shock and awe. They had reached the porch to find a man sitting on a chair. Naruto and the man, who called himself Dionysus, had a borderline argument kind of talk, and Dionysus proceeded to get up and walk to the much taller blonde and look him in the eye. And then he just fell on his knees. Just like that.

Finn knew that Naruto had done something. He did not know what, but he knew that he had.

The tension in the air was thick, and it was broken by Chiron, who trotted up to the two men and one boy, in his centaur form.

Finn looked at him with eyes that were so wide, they looked like dinner plates.

Chiron smiled when he looked at Naruto, and glanced at Dionysus, who was strangely sweating.

He looked like he was about to say something, before Naruto interrupted him.

"Save it, old…centaur. I found the kid, I brought him here. Now, I will leave, thank you very much."

Naruto was about to get up, when Chiron asked him to stay.

Before he could reply, Chiron called one of the campers, and told her to take Finn, and show him the orientation film.

He then looked at the blonde, for an explanation he supposed.

"An orphan. Found him in an alley. If I had been a second late, he would not have made it here." Naruto said, after Finn was gone.

"Life for demigods is hard, Naruto. And people like you, you can help them. I understand if you don't want to, and I thank you, for saving yet another child."

Having the blonde helping the Keeper satyrs in finding demigods around the world would be a major help. And Naruto had proved that he was capable of handling himself.

His musings were interrupted by Dionysus, who sounded especially displeased today.

"It seems like you have found quite the interesting specimen, Chiron." He looked at Naruto while saying this.

Naruto winked at him, and smiled, "Surely not all that interesting. I am just a mortal, after all."

With this he got up, and started walking away.

"If you ever change your mind, Naruto, about helping these demigods, you're always welcome here."

He nodded at Chiron's words, before a feminine squeal of joy erupted from near his chest, where a very happy Sarah had jumped onto.

"Hi Naruto!" She said cheerfully.

"Oof, Sarah, don't you have somewhere else to be? Go train or something! I was leaving anyway" He said as he continued to walk towards the large pine tree, where the exit was.

"But I have so much to tell you! Do you know, I am a daughter of Aphrodite! One night when everyone was eating at the bonfire I suddenly started glowing! Then everyone bowed down and they had me move into the Aphrodite cabin! I made some friends at the Hermes cabin but the Aphrodite cabin is so much better! It so pink, its almost like a dollhouse!" She said happily.

Naruto couldn't help but smile at the child's innocence.

"So did you make any friends at the Aphrodite cabin?"

"YESS, everyone there is so nice and amazing, and just like me!"

He supposed that was to be expected, since they had the same mother.

Naruto liked what the camp was doing for these children. Displaced godly children with nowhere to go, could come here and find a family for themselves. As Sarah had, and as he supposed Finn would as well.

Despite his claims that he didn't care about all this, he still felt somehow responsible, for these kids' safety, and their happiness.

And so, he would continue to help any kids he would come across. Any and all. He would protect those who couldn't protect themselves.

He was starting to resemble his older self much more now, he mused to himself.

"Careful now, you don't want them to know you're all caring and plushy inside." A deep, gruff voice resonated from somewhere deep within his psyche.

'Oh! He speaks! The mighty kitsune-sama!'

"You ought to have more respect for the kitsune-sama. I could still blast your behind all the way to Konoha, kid."

'Hah, don't be so sure bud. You never know after all,' He replied, within his mind, 'And when are you going to stop calling me a kid?! I was the Kage of the strongest Hidden Village, you ought to be the one with more respect.'

"The same village I levelled down to the ground with a flick of my tail." The gruff voice responded lazily.

'And got sealed into a kid who hadn't even grown teeth yet.' Naruto guffawed.

"And still am, and Kami knows how much I hate that kid."

'Aw, I love you too furball.'

A "Hmph." was all he got in return.

Kurama was still inside him, although it was more a matter of choice rather than a matter of a large metal gate with bars and a paper restricting his exit.

And Naruto was duly grateful for the company of the fox. He would've lost it a long time ago otherwise. Naruto had had him since his birth now, and how amusingly long ago that had been.

As the last remnants of their age, or rather, Naruto's age, since Kurama had been quite old when he was sealed, it was natural for them to stick together.

Two overpowered beings, equally displaced, and lost of age and time and home. It was natural that one of them preferred living INSIDE the mind of the other, and sleep his days away.

They weren't just lost of age and home though, they had no purpose. They hadn't had one for a long time now. So Kurama supposed it was natural of the blonde to manage to find himself helping sons and daughters of gods and fighting monsters, since he always had a profound knack for getting himself into things he shouldn't have.

It was all natural.

Their musings were interrupted by a question from the little girl, still in his arms.

"What was that, Sarah? I didn't listen to what you said." Naruto asked her.

"I asked if you would please stay for the night. They have a bonfire and we sing songs, and anything that you want to eat appears on the tables!" Sarah spoke quickly, hoping the blonde would agree.

He thought about it for a moment. Or at least he pretended to, because he supposed it would hurt the girl's feelings if he said no outright.

"No Sarah, I have work to do, college and all."

He lied obviously. All the work that he had planned on doing was falling asleep on his bed in his own apartment.

Sarah pouted and said, "I'll not let you go!" with a determined look on her face, and grabbed onto his head, pulled herself upward, and sat on his neck.

"I won't get off until you promise me that you'll stay!"

"Stop wiggling around on me! I'm ticklish."

Soon as he said that, he regretted it. Sarah started tickling his neck furiously, and Naruto had enough.

He grabbed her from his neck, lifted the now struggling girl, and placed her on the nearest tree branch as she tried punching and kicking him, but her hands and legs were too short.

"You're so mean!"

With that, she started crying.

Naruto stared at the girl. With a sigh, he picked her back from the tree branch, placed her on his neck, and started walking back towards the camp.

"Point me to wherever your dining area is." He said with another sigh.

She squealed happily and pointed him towards the pavilion.

The sun had set, and the full moon was completely visible, illuminating the spread out land and its buildings beautifully. It seemed brighter than usual today, Naruto mused to himself.

A few kids were already at their tables, and more were coming in.

Chiron and Dionysus sat at a smaller table, set horizontal to all the other tables that were arranged in rows.

A few hundred kids, a centaur, a god, good food, and a brighter moon. What could go wrong?

Naruto was dining with Chiron and Dionysus, chomping on some grapes.

"They taste tastier, is it because you're the god of grapes?" Naruto looked towards Dionysus, his mouth full of grapes.

Dionysus tried not to get irritated, but it seemed like the blonde had made it his dearest ambition to annoy the hell out of him since the moment he stepped in the camp's borders.

"God of grapes, wine, vine and madness. Don't miss out on the last bit."

"Why diet coke when you're the god of wine?"

Dionysus groaned. Chiron smiled, "He has been forbidden from consuming any alcohol by his father, Naruto. It is a part of his punishment."

Naruto proceeded to pull out a bottle of Petrus from somewhere, pop off the cap, and start chugging it down.

Chiron looked at the bottle appreciatively, "Is that a bottle of the Pomerol Petrus?"

"Yes, $3000 a bottle old man. Oh, Dionysus, you want some?" He asked innocently.

Dionysus bloodshot eyes looked even more bloodshot, so bloodshot that his whole eye except the iris seemed to have gone red.

"Oh, you look quite drunk already! Should I tell your daddy on you?"

Dionysus eyes looked like they would pop any second, and Chiron looked alarmed. Naruto had gone too far.

And that was the moment the Hunters of Artemis chose to arrive, led by Artemis herself.

She walked into the camp, leading all her hunters.

"Ah, Lady Artemis, we are honored." Chiron said as all the demigods kneeled. Dionysus regarded her with a nod, his anger at Naruto mostly forgotten, because it was beneath him to use his powers on a mere mortal, and it probably was also because of the fact that said powers did not seem to work on said mortal. But it was mostly because of the former.

But Naruto, had no idea what to do if you found yourself in the presence of a goddess. In his previous encounters with goddess, they generally tended to be excessively violent, with horns and super-powerful red eyes on their foreheads.

They certainly did not come in the appearance of 11 year old girls.

Every camper bowed, and so did Chiron. Even Dionysus regarded her with a careful nod.

But Naruto kept sitting there, chugging down his bottle of three thousand dollar wine.

Zoe Nightshade was furious, to say in the least. She had never seen the man before. But this is why she hated men. No respect whatsoever, and throw a couple horrible habits in there, namely drinking and whoring, and there you have it, a MAN.

"Bow, before the great Lady Artemis. It is a disrespect that you even laid your disgusting eyes on her." Zoe would've said something to the blonde, but one of the other hunters beat her to it.

And yet, the man did not seem to care.

He kept drinking.

And they kept looking at him.

Artemis, with an unreadable expression that could mean anything, her hunters in barely suppressed rage at this disrespect, Chiron with wary eyes, Dionysus with amusement and the campers in horror.

Once he was done drinking the entire bottle, he calmly set it on his table. Then he looked at the hunter who had spoken.

And he said, "What did you say? I couldn't quite catch that, Im sorry."

Zoe repeated what the hunter had said, with much more visible display of barely controlled anger.

"Oh, you're suggesting that I was checking out this 11-year old girl? Sorry to disappoint you ladies, but I'm no pedophile."

Zoe gripped her bow so hard it would've broken if it wasn't magical.

"BOW." She said, her teeth clenched.

"How about, um, let me think, NO."

If she gripped her bow any harder, it was going to break, magical or not.

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO YOU ARE SPEAKING TO?" She spoke so loudly that even the tree nymphs watching scurried back to their trees.

"No, which is precisely the reason I am not bowing right now." Naruto said casually.

Zoe was going to lunge at him, but her mistress stopped her before she could put an arrow up this disrespectful man's rear.

"He is just ignorant Zoe, he is too simple to understand. But it would be good to learn some respect, boy. It might even save your life someday." Artemis spoke. Her voice was a young girl's, but it carried so much authority that it made the hair on the legs of satyrs 150 feet away stand.

"The only thing that saves my life is my blade."

"And if you don't learn to respect, you'll need it often. And it will not hold out everytime."

"You never know, it might." He said with a strange smile and a wink.

Artemis had enough of this non-sense. She supposed it would be fun to see him speak so much as a jackalope, but she fought the temptation.

"My hunters are tired, Chiron. We've been on the trail of a monster from all the way to Kansas. Have them accommodated at my cabin."

Chiron had already risen, and he said, "Yes, Lady Artemis."

He then called forward a girl of the Athena cabin to lead to the Artemis cabin. The campers were still on their knees. They had been sure that the tall blonde guy who seemed just a slightly older than they were would go off bounding into the forest as a jackalope, but it did not happen.

Chiron sent them off as well, and they scuttered to their cabins, with the memory of a man who had chugged a whole bottle of wine, right in front of Artemis, and then had the nerve to argue with her, AND her hunters, and still wasn't a jackalope.

Artemis spoke to Chiron again after the campers and the hunters had left.

"We shall leave tomorrow at dusk. This monster is unlike any other I have faced in the few previous centuries. This doesn't bode well for Olympus, Chiron."

Chiron nodded gravely, "I shall send information to the hunters if I acquire any, my Lady."

"Good." With that, and a glare in Naruto's direction, she walked back into the trees from which she had emerged from with the hunters.

"That was Artemis, the Goddess of the Hunt, Wilderness, Archery and the Moon. She is known for her hate she harbors towards the male gender, Naruto." Chiron told the blonde, who was drinking another bottle of wine now.

"Lucky for you, you aren't a jackalope yet. Try to pull a few more of these stunts, and do us all a favor and become one," Dionysus said with distaste, "Perhaps then you would be a little less bothersome."

Naruto was offered a room in the Big House to sleep for the night, but he declined, saying that he'd find a place, but he wanted to look around first, and with that, he had left.

The next morning, a few Hermes kids who were tasked with cleaning the stables because of their cabin's negative 2 marks in cleanliness found a blond man sleeping soundly, using a pile of hay as a blanket.

They recognised him from the previous night, the guy who'd annoyed Artemis and still lived. He was quite their role model now. But still, that wouldn't stop them from trying to rob him.

When the Hermes kids who had been tasked with cleaning the stables didn't return till it was noon, there was a major panic. The Hermes campers decided to look EVERYWHERE but the stables. Then some Athena cabin kid told them to go look in the stables first.

And that was where they found a blond man sleeping soundly, using a hay pile as a blanket. Beside him lay the three Hermes kids who were on cleaning duty.

One of them had a black eye, the other had a swollen nose, and the other other had a big welt on his forehead. All three of them were out cold.

Deciding better than trying to rob him, they went to Chiron, who shook his head.

Things were going to change quite a lot with the blonde around. He could feel it in his horse bones.

END

Hope you liked the chapter! Do leave a review!

As for the story, I am quite confused with who I should pair Naruto with. When I wrote the first chapter, I had Aphrodite in mind, but for some reason I find myself shifting towards Artemis more, maybe even Calypso. But under no circumstances will this story be harem. I hate harems.

Anyways, do leave your opinions down in the reviews. It would be really appreciated.

And I was FUCKING OVERWHELMED by the amount of support the first chapter got. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to write a review and favourite and follow and all.

See ya!